Screen LibraryA skeptic's guide to writers' houses /
Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature,...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 10 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205817 |
| Index Number: | PS141 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Irrational Allure of Writers Houses -- Chapter 2. Trying to Find Whitman in Camden -- Chapter 3. Never the Twain Shall Meet -- Chapter 4. The Concord Pilgrimage -- Chapter 5. Hemingway s Breadcrumb Trail -- Chapter 6. Not That Tom Wolfe -- Chapter 7. Best-Laid Plans at Jack London State Historic Park -- Chapter 8. The Compensation of Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Chapter 9. Poe Houses and Arrested Decay -- Chapter 10. At Home with Charles Chesnutt and Langston Hughes -- American Writers Houses Open to the Public -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. |