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In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera - both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers captured the transformations of a rapidly changing American literary landscape.

Overtones of Opera in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton

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      Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/01/2010
      ISBN13: 9780807134917, 978-0807134917
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      Book Synopsis
      In this captivating work, Carmen Trammell Skaggs examines the discourse of opera - both the art form and the social institution -- in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. Through the lens of opera, she maintains, major American writers captured the transformations of a rapidly changing American literary landscape.

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