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Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920

Contributor(s): Bentley, Nancy (Author)

ISBN: 9780812241747

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Pub Date: June 16, 2009

Dewey: 810.9355

LCCN: 2009001005

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.40" H x 9.20" L x 6.10" W ( 1.60 lbs) 376 pages

BISAC Categories:

Literary Criticism | American | General

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Description: Through close readings of writers such as Edith Wharton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin, Frantic Panoramas offers an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America at the turn of the twentieth century.

Review Quotes: "Original, stimulating, and richly informative."-- "Choice"

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