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Lives out of letters : essays on American literary biography and documentation in honor of Robert N. Hudspeth / edited by Robert D. Habich.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- American prose literature--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Biography as a literary form.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages : maps, portrait ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2004]
- Contents:
- The best parts of histories : the letters in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation / Mark L. Sargent
- The captive as celebrity / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
- The inner life of Fruitlands / Larry Carlson
- Frank Webb's The Garies and their friends contextualized within African American slave narratives / Henry Golemba
- Patch-work labors : Susan Fenimore Cooper's correspondence and the emergence of her independent literary career / Rochelle Johnson
- Paris wasn't like that : Kay Boyle and the last of the lost generation / Sandra Spanier
- Conversion in Germany : the redirection of Thomas Wolfe's late fiction / James D. Boyer
- Conversation that makes the soul : writing the biography of Mary Moody Emerson / Phyllis Cole
- Chesnutt's forgotten story / Charles Hackenberry
- The resurrection of the author : why biography still matters / Gary Scharnhorst
- The perils of writing biography / Robert D. Richardson
- Appendix : Robert N. Hudspeth's curriculum vitae.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838640052
- OCLC:
- 53084011
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