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- catalog abstract ""Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers a true representation of the diversity of American literature. Its essays on the "lives" of nearly 1,600 characters explore all the richness of American society through figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as the American people." "Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 through 1991, the figures profiled in Major Characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story and are drawn from novels and short stories that represent every era, genre, and style of American fictional writing."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b6929724.
- catalog contributor b6929725.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Developed at Columbia University's Center for American Culture Studies, Major Characters in American Fiction offers a true representation of the diversity of American literature. Its essays on the "lives" of nearly 1,600 characters explore all the richness of American society through figures as varied in ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, age, and experience as the American people." "Inhabiting fictional works written from 1790 through 1991, the figures profiled in Major Characters are presented in biographical essays that tell each one's life story and are drawn from novels and short stories that represent every era, genre, and style of American fictional writing."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Major characters in American fiction -- List of authors -- List of titles -- List of characters' alternate names.".
- catalog extent "vii, 952 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0805030603 :".
- catalog isPartOf "A Henry Holt reference book".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : H. Holt,".
- catalog subject "813.009/27/03 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "Characters and characteristics in literature Dictionaries.".
- catalog subject "PS374.C43 M35 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Major characters in American fiction -- List of authors -- List of titles -- List of characters' alternate names.".
- catalog title "Major characters in American fiction / general editors, Jack Salzman and Pamela Wilkinson ; with Lucile Bruce, Janet Dean, Cybele Merrick, and the staff of the Columbia University Center for American Culture Studies.".
- catalog type "Dictionaries. fast".
- catalog type "text".