William Williams

Mr. Penrose

The Journal of Penrose, Seaman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Penrose at the forefront of the American literary canon.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780253010476
• ISBN-10: 0253010470
• Artikelnr.: 36840248

Autorenporträt

William Williams (1727-1791) was a professional painter and landscape artist who tutored a young Benjamin West. Williams primarily resided in Philadelphia and New York and is thought to have written Mr. Penrose shortly before the Revolutionary War. David Howard Dickason (1907-1974) was Professor of English at Indiana University and a specialist in American literature. He discovered William Williams's original manuscript at Indiana University's Lilly Library. Sarah Wadsworth is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is author of In the Company of Books: Literature and Its "Classes" in Nineteenth-Century America and (with Wayne A. Wiegand) of Right Here I See My Own Books: The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition.