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Windows on the world : essays on American social fiction / C. Hugh Holman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holman, C. Hugh (Clarence Hugh), 1914-1981.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Amerikaans.
- Realisme (letterkunde).
- Romans.
- Local Subjects:
- Amerikaans.
- Realisme (letterkunde).
- Romans.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 205 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1979]
- Contents:
- Literary realism: an American mode
- "of everything the unexplained and irresponsible specimen": notes on how to read American realism
- Detached laughter in the South
- Anodyne for the village virus
- Marquand, novelist of manners
- Aril in Queenborough: Ellen Glasgow's comedies of manners
- Barren ground and the shape of history
- Faulkner's august avatars
- The dwarf on Wolfe's shoulder
- The Southern provincial in metropolis
- The Bildungsroman, American style.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0870492640
- 9780870492648
- OCLC:
- 4194128
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