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Images of the Negro in American literature / edited by Seymour L. Gross and John Edward Hardy.
LIBRA PS173.N4 G7
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LIBRA - Rare PS173.N4 G7 1966 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gross, Seymour L., 1926-1988, editor.
- Series:
- Patterns of literary criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpreation.
- Melville, Herman.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hughes, Langston.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wright, Richard.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Ellison, Ralph, Criticism and interpretation.
- Ellison, Ralph.
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.
- Baldwin, James.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Criticism and interpretation.
- Twain, Mark.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Faulkner, William.
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001--Criticism and interpretation.
- Welty, Eudora.
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 321 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1966.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Stereotype to Archetype: The Negro in American Literary Criticism / Seymour L. Gross
- Traditions. The Image of the Negro in Colonial Literature / Milton Cantor; The Negro in the Southern Novel Prior to 1850 / Tremaine McDowell; The Negro in the Literature of the Reconstruction / Theodore L. Gross; The Blackness of Darkness: The Negro and the Development of American Gothic / Leslie A. Fiedler; The Early Harlem Novel / Eugene Arden; Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity / Ralph Ellison
- Individual Talents. Herman Melville and the American National Sin / Sidney Kaplan; Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Sinister Side of Patriarchy / Severn Duvall; Pudd'nhead Wilson: The End of Mark Twain's American Dream / James M. Cox; The Harlem of Langston Hughes' Poetry / Arthur P. Davis; Faulker and the Negroes / Irving Howe; Eudora Welty's Negroes / John Edward Hardy; Many Thousands Gone: Richard Wright's Native Son / James Baldwin; Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Marcus Klein; The Novels of James Baldwin / Robert A. Bone.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy is paperbound edition with numerous underlines and marginal marks.
- Banks Collection copy has illegible autograph on half title-page.
- OCLC:
- 269418
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