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Title Nineteenth-century American fiction writers / edited by Kent P. Ljungquist
Published Detroit : Gale Research, ©1999
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 380 pages) : illustrations
Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 202
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 202
Contents Frederick Irving Anderson / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Jane Goodwin Austin / Jane Atteridge Rose -- Irving Bacheller / Charles Johanningsmeier -- Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr / Bruce Guy Chabot -- Robert Montgomery Bird / Justin R. Wert -- Lillie Devereux Blake / Grace Farrell -- Sherwood Bonner / Anne Razey Gowdy -- J. Ross Browne / Joseph Csicsila -- Alice Cary / Heidi M. Schultz -- Robert W. Chambers / Bennett Lovett-Graff -- Caroline Chesebro ̓/ S.J. Wolfe -- Winston Churchill / Wade Hall -- Frederic S. Cozzens / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Samuel Post Davis / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Thomas Dunn English / William Crisman -- Edgar Fawcett / John D. Cloy -- Theodore Sedgwick Fay / Daniel A. Wells -- Mary Hallock Foote / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Anna Katharine Green / Barbara Ryan -- Mary Jane Holmes / Dorri R. Beam -- Thomas Janvier / Layne Neeper -- John Beauchamp Jones / Robin Grey -- Richard Burleigh Kimball / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Eliza Leslie / Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar -- George Lippard / Michael L. Burduck -- Charles Major / Mathew David Fisher -- James McHenry / Maureen Ann Sullivan -- S. Weir Mitchell / Laura Dassow Walls -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps / Patricia D. Maida -- E.P. Roe / E. Kate Stewart -- Edgar Saltus / Carol Sue Hubbell and Lawrence I. Berkove -- William Joseph Snelling / Mary R. Reichardt -- Elizabeth Stoddard / Jennifer Hynes -- William Leete Stone / Boyd Childress -- Ruth McEnery Stuart / Kathryn B. McKee -- H.E. Taliaferro / Ed Piacentino -- Frederick William Thomas / Benjamin F. Fisher -- Daniel Pierce Thompson / Lucia Z. Knoles -- John Townsend Trowbridge / David E.E. Sloane -- Lew Wallace / Dennis W. Eddings -- Anne Warner / Karen L. Morgan -- Charles Wilkins Webber / Richard P. Benton -- Edward Noyes Westcott / Jeffrey B. Kurtz -- Frances Miriam Whitcher / Robyn M. Preston -- Theodore Winthrop / Jonathan Wells -- Lillie Buffum Chace Wyman / Loretta Woodard
Summary Essays on nineteenth-century American fiction writers that suggest a depth and richness marked by both national expansion and regional division. Includes coverage of neglected writers, marking the first meaningful assessment of their lives and roles in the literary and cultural history of the United States. Contains discussions of two genres, the detective story and the supernatural tale
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
American fiction -- 19th century -- Dictionaries
Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Ljungquist, Kent, 1948-
Other Titles 19th century American fiction writers