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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34633404 Title: John Jakes : a critical companion Author: Mary Ellen Jones Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0313295301 9780313295300 OCLC:34633404

  
  

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John Jakes : a critical companion

Author:	Mary Ellen Jones
Publisher:	Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Series:	Critical companions to popular contemporary writers.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	John Jakes, often called "the people's author" and "godfather of the historical novel," has made American history come to life in his series The Kent Family Chronicles and The North and South Trilogy. Through these novels, Jakes conveys the sweep of American history, both its glory and its grim scenes, from the American Revolution to the opening moments of the 20th century. Never glossing over the nation's flaws (slavery, materialism, a double-edged Manifest Destiny), Jakes nevertheless affirms American values. This is the first full-length critical study of his work. It examines in detail Jakes thirteen major novels to date and assesses his methods as "America's history teacher." The examination of each novel in this study includes sections on plot development, character development, and thematic issues. Jones also offers an alternative critical perspective from which to read each novel - such as feminist literary criticism, New. Historicism, Marxist criticism, and Deconstructionism - that gives the reader an alternative viewpoint from which to consider the novel. A complete bibliography of all of John Jakes' work, works about John Jakes, and a listing of reviews of all the novels examined in the book concludes the study.  Read more...
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