Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards

Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards A Literary History With Notes on Washington Writers - Maryland Paperback Bookshelf

Johns Hopkins pbk Edition

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A lively account of Maryland's long-overlooked but substantial contribution to American letters.

In this first comprehensive literary history of Baltimore and Maryland (with notes on Washington writers), Frank R. Shivers, Jr., explores the region's long-overlooked but substantial contribution to American letters. In picture and story, Shivers's lively account ranges from the colonial satire of Ebenezer Cook, to the National Anthem of Francis Scott Key, to the acclaimed works of Poe, Mencken, and Fitzgerald. Here are surprising stories of Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Dashiel Hammett, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, and other writers influenced by Chesapeake culture-an influence still fresh in the work of such contemporary writers as John Barth, Anne Tyler, and Russell Baker. "Nothing," wrote Gertrude Stein, "really can stop anyone living and feeling as they do in Baltimore." As entertaining as it is informative, Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards shows us why.

Book information

ISBN: 9780801858109
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub date:
Edition: Johns Hopkins pbk Edition
DEWEY: 810.99752
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 343
Weight: 499g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 21mm