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Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards: A Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers by Frank R. Shivers (Paperback, 1998)

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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, 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. Is there a special quality in our Maryland way of life that is conducive to creative writing and to writers?...Frank Shivers has put together a well-researched, carefully documented, and entertaining study that focuses on these and other questions...The range of this study is extensive but well-managed. --'Baltimore Sun' Shivers has done the Maryland literary community, and literary historians in general, a tremendous service with this book...His eye for important detail, as well as the interestingly trivial, is more than just commendable. He reveals why Baltimore is called 'Mobtown,' where the expression 'hooker' originated, and where the story of George Washington and the cherry tree can first be found...A book any serious lover of Maryland literary history must read. --Stephen J. Vicchio, 'Maryland Historical Magazine'

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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13
9780801858109
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Book Title
Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards: a Literary History with Notes on Washington Writers
Author
Frank R. Shivers
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
510g

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Maryland Paperback Bookshelf
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United States

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