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Acculturation
Ancient Rome
Author_Frank R. Shivers
Barbarians
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Ethnography
Germania
Roman Empire
Roman History
Roman-barbarian relations
Rome Provinces Administration
Tacitus
Product details
- ISBN 9780801858109
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this first comprehensive literary history of Baltimore and Maryland (with notes on Washington writers), Frank R. Shivers, Jr., explores the region's long-overlooked but substantial contribution to American letters. In picture and story, Shivers's lively account ranges from the colonial satire of Ebenezer Cook, to the National Anthem of Francis Scott Key, to the acclaimed works of Poe, Mencken, and Fitzgerald. Here are surprising stories of Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Dashiel Hammett, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, and other writers influenced by Chesapeake culture-an influence still fresh in the work of such contemporary writers as John Barth, Anne Tyler, and Russell Baker. "Nothing," wrote Gertrude Stein, "really can stop anyone living and feeling as they do in Baltimore." As entertaining as it is informative, Maryland Wits and Baltimore Bards shows us why.
Frank R. Shivers, Jr. teaches in the School of Continuing Studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Bolton Hill: Baltimore Classic and Walking in Baltimore, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.
