Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader
Author: Benj. N. Martin
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Choice Specimens of American Literature is a slightly political literary textbook for students to learn more about classic American writers and their works. Excerpt: "It seemed unnecessary to treat the female writers as a distinct class; they are, therefore, arranged under the departments to which they respectively belong, as Essayists, Novelists, Poets."

A Reader's Manifesto

A Reader's Manifesto
Author: B. R. Myers
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.