by Marcus Cunliffe · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140225143
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«The Literature of the United States» is Marcus Cunliffe's literary criticism essay, published by Penguin Books in paperback (512 pages, in English).
The book traces the evolution of American literature from the colonial era to modernist and postmodernist currents. Cunliffe devotes chapters to central authors such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, James and Dreiser, and attends to humour, poetry, theatre and the female voices of the American tradition.
Fourth edition of a work originally published in 1954, within the Pelican Books collection. Includes index and bibliography.
Aimed at literature students and readers wanting an overview of the American literary tradition.
Marcus Falkner Cunliffe (1922–1990) was a British scholar who specialized in cultural and military American Studies. He was particularly interested in comparing how Europeans viewed Americans and how Americans viewed Europeans.
