Understanding Alice Adams

A comprehensive study of an award-winning writer who delved into the struggle of American womanhood

About the author

Bryant Mangum, professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, is the author of A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories and the editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context and The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mangum's essays have appeared in Resources for American Literary Study, the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, the Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many other books and journals.

Summary

An illuminating study of an award-winning writer who captured the complex challenges twentieth-century women faced in their struggle for independence. In Understanding Alice Adams, Bryant Mangum examines the thematic intricacies and astute social commentary of Adams's eleven novels and five short story collections.

Product details

• Authors: Bryant Mangum
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781611179330
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-933-0
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies