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On The American Classics: A Personal Essay by Denis Donoghue (Yale University Press, $27)

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John Seelye is the author of several books, including War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Colonialism and Jane Eyre's American Daughters. He is graduate research professor of American Literature at the University of Florida.

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