Background
Klein, Marcus Neil was born on April 19, 1928 in Cleveland. Son of Nelson and Lena (Miller) Klein.
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After Alienation American Novels in Mid-Century
(1962 MERIDIAN BOOKS SOFTCOVER)
1962 MERIDIAN BOOKS SOFTCOVER
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Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900 (Monographs)
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In Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes, Marcus Klein explores the sources and accumulated meanings of certain tales and figures that have dominated the American imagination: the Horatio Alger story, the western, and the figure of the private eye. With their distinguishing locales, costumes, and gestures, they emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to massive immigration, the great expansion of industry and commerce, and the crowding of the cities. Klein argues that these figures appear so frequently and continuously in American expression, both high and low, as to constitute a definition of American culture. Klein recovers originating impulses within these tales by examining a broad range of documents, including nickel and dime novels as well as specimens of "high" literature, police and detective memoirs, rogues' galleries, cowboy memoirs, nineteenth-century child and welfare studies, and old guides to the city. Discovered in the detail of their historical context, the source tales are surprisingly sophisticated, witty, and frequently cynical and ironic. Indeed, Klein points out, these stories simultaneously interrogate and integrate the national pieties embodied in their fictional figures. Whatever yearnings the rags-to-riches story, the detective novel, and the Western fulfilled in their day, they are still endlessly repeated—in books, in the movies, on television every evening. In their beginnings these tales are open-ended, Klein contends, and they endure because they are still teasing and unfinished.
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(Easterns, Westerns and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900) Author: Marcus Klein published on (November, 1994)
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After alienation;: American novels in mid-century
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Marcus Neil Klein
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Bachelor, Western Reserve University, 1950. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1962.
Postgraduate, University Munich, 1957.
Career
Professor of English, Barnard College, New York City, 1957-1965; Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo, since 1965; Professor of English, Breadloaf School, Middlebury, Vermont, 1986; Professor of English, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, -. Visiting professor U. Paris/Vincennes, 1973.
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Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900 (Monographs)
( In Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes, Marcus Klein e...)
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After Alienation American Novels in Mid-Century
(1962 MERIDIAN BOOKS SOFTCOVER)
- After Alienation
- (Easterns, Westerns and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900) Author: Marcus Klein published on (November, 1994)
- After alienation;: American novels in mid-century
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Easterns, Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900 (Monographs)
Connections
Married Alix Kates Shulman, April 19, 1953 (divorced 1960). Married Marian Weitzman, November 20, 1960. Children: Jennifer, Eric.
