Otfinski, Steven

Nineteenth-century writers / Steven Otfinski - - 122 p. illus. - American profiles .



Contains profiles of ten nineteenth-century American literary giantrs, from Washington Irving to Stephen Crane and assesses their work and its significance for American life and culture.

ISBN: 0-8160-2486-3

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--19th century - History and criticism
Authgors, American--19th century - Biography
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Subjects--Index Terms: Poe, Edgar Allen Twain, Mark Crane, Stephen Melville, Herman Thoreau, Henry David Whitman, Walt Dickinson, Emily