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Moreover, minority authors were beginning to publish fiction, as in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), Frank J. Webb's The Garies and Their Friends, (1857) Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America (1859–62) and Harriet E. Wilson's Our Nig: Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) as early African ...
American Literature is a literary journal published by Duke University Press.It is sponsored by the American Literature Section of the Modern Language Association.The current editors are Priscilla Wald and Matthew A. Taylor.
The Best American Short Stories is a yearly anthology that's part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Since 1915, the BASS has anthologized more than 2,000 short stories, [1] including works by some of the most famous writers in contemporary American literature.
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery.
Benjamin Button is born in Baltimore in 1860 with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man and already capable of speech. His father, Roger, invites neighbourhood boys to play with him and orders him to play with children's toys, but Benjamin obeys only to please his father.
After an evening meal at the inn, Parkins inspects the whistle while alone in his room. First clearing the hard-packed soil from the item onto a sheet of paper, he then empties the soil out of the window, observing what he believes to be a sole individual "stationed on the shore, facing the inn". Parkins then holds the whistle close to a candle, discovering two inscriptions on the item. On one ...
On James Baldwin's birthday, one writer celebrates his best works and how she discovered him in the first place. Read here to learn which books you should read first to start your own Baldwin journey.
In the mid-19th century, English literature in the United States was generally seen, within academia, as inferior to classical literature and its study generally limited to secondary schools. [1]