inscribed by author on front free end paper. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear and very light soiling. corners lightly bumped. foredge, head and foot of book have very light soiling. dust jacket has some light wear and fading at head and foot of spine.

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Title: American Literature and the Academy: The Roots, Growth, and Maturity of a Profession
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1986
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0812280318
ISBN 13: 9780812280319
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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"Scholars in American literature and cultural history will be grateful for the dedicated archival research that has enabled Vanderbilt, more than any previous writer, to reveal the institutionalization in the universities of our national literature."—American Quarterly

"An indispensable source."—American Literary Realism

"A study that is not likely to find a rival for some time."—Times Literary Supplement

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