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    • Edited by Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2022
    December 2021
    ISBN:
    9781108773546
    9781108488969
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773546
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.81kg, 375 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Literature in Context
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Literature in Context
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    Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is the second-most assigned American novel since 1945 and is one of the most enduring. It is studied by many thousands of high school and college students every year and has been since the 1950s. His landmark essays, with their blend of personal history and cultural theory, have been extraordinarily influential. Ralph Ellison in Context includes authoritative chapters summing up longstanding conversations, while offering groundbreaking essays on a variety of topics not yet covered in the copious critical and biographical literature. It provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison's life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the pressing topics of his time. It includes chapters on Ellison's literary influences and offers a definitive overview of his early writings. It also provides an overview of Ellison's reception and reputation from his death in 1994 through 2020.

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    ‘… an ideal introduction to the scholarship surrounding this important writer … Recommended,’

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    ‘All the contributors write with insight and authority. Their work is of great service and gives both the expert and lay reader lots to ponder.’

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