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Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Grammar and Twentieth-Century American Literature

Contributors:

By (Author) Lola Boorman

ISBN:

9781399547543

Publisher:

Edinburgh University Press

Imprint:

Edinburgh University Press

Publication Date:

10th March 2026

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 138mm, Height 216mm

Description

Taking Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Davis and David Foster Wallace as key case studies, Lola Boorman makes a series of compelling links between how American authors and intellectuals learned grammar through various, diverse institutional settings and how they use it in their work to directly address structures of power, authority, democracy, gender, race and class. Drawing on the shifting discourses and definitions of grammar in academic disciplines, literary and intellectual movements and para-literary networks including linguistics, anthropology, language philosophy, self-help grammar books and school pedagogy the book charts the invisible yet ubiquitous role that grammar has played in literature and literary criticism, and its embeddedness in systems of social and political power and conceptions of national identity.

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