An edition of Maryland wits & Baltimore bards (1998)

Maryland wits & Baltimore bards

a literary history with notes on Washington writers

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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, Dashiell 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 & Baltimore Bards shows us why.

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Johns Hopkins University Press
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English
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343

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Subjects
American Authors, American literature, Authors, American, History and criticism, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Literary landmarks, Maryland, biography, Authors, biography, Maryland, history, Biography
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Baltimore (Md.), Maryland, Washington (D.C.)

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Maryland wits & Baltimore bards: a literary history with notes on Washington writers
1998, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Includes bibliographical references ([p. 315]-323) and index.
Originally published: Baltimore : Maclay & Associates, 1985.

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Baltimore, Md
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Maryland paperback bookshelf
Other Titles
Maryland wits and Baltimore bards

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810.9/9752
Library of Congress
PS266.M3 S47 1998, PS266.M3S47 1998

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343 p. :
Number of pages
343

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OL680146M
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marylandwitsbalt0000shiv
ISBN 10
0801858100
LCCN
97026678
OCLC/WorldCat
37310726
Library Thing
351673
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1158066

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