Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Kaye Gibbons

A Literary Companion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling author's works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons' life, the work presents 103 A-Z entries that include Snodgrass's analysis, cover the writings of reviewers and critics, and provide selected bibliographies. Appendices offer an historical timeline with references to corresponding historical events from Gibbons' novels, along with a list of 42 topics for group or individual research projects.

Produktdetails

• McFarland Literary Companions Nr.5
• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780786429431
• ISBN-10: 0786429437
• Artikelnr.: 22567081

Autorenporträt

Mary Ellen Snodgrass is an award-winning author of English and Latin textbooks and reference works for 35 years. She taught at Hickory High School and Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina for 23 years. Her writing focuses on women's and world literature and history and general research topics, including epidemics, the history of money, clothing, food, and dance. She lives in Hickory, North Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
Chronology of Gibbons's Life and Works     
Gibbons's Genealogy     
Kaye Gibbons: A Literary Companion      
Appendix A: Time Line of Historical and Fictional Events in Gibbons's Works
     
Appendix B: Writing and Research Topics     
Bibliography     
Index