Christopher Benfey

American Audacity

Literary Essays North and South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From one of America's preeminent critics and essayists, a new book in the series Writers on Writing casts new light on some of America's literary masters

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Michigan Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780472033997
• ISBN-10: 0472033999
• Artikelnr.: 28244720

Autorenporträt

Christopher Benfey is the author of numerous highly regarded books, including Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet; The Double Life of Stephen Crane; Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable; and, most recently, The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan; and A Summer of Hummingbirds. Benfey's poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Pequod, and Ploughshares. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Currently he is Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College.