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PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9780748644612

RRP: £60.00

PAGES: 160

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 31, 2012

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American Autobiography

Rachael McLennan

Simon P. Newman

Carol R. Smith

Published in association with the British Association for American Studies, this innovative series is an indispensable collection in American Studies. Each volume tackles an important area and is written by an accepted academic expert within the discipline. Books selected for the series are clearly written introductions designed to offer students definitive short surveys of key topics in the field.

Rachael McLennan

Rachael McLennan is Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of Developing Figures: Adolescence, America and Postwar Fiction (Palgrave, 2009).

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