American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract

✍ Scribed by Brook Thomas

Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 375
Edition: Reprint 2019
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in `1997.

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