Elizabeth Ammons
American literary scholar
About Elizabeth Ammons
Born 1943. Elizabeth Ammons is an American literary historian, literary scholar, university teacher, philologist and scholar of English.
Elizabeth Ammons is professor emerita at Tufts University. She was previously the Harriet B. Fay Professor of Literature at Tufts University.
Early life and education Ammons attended University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Publications Select books: Critical essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1979 Edith Wharton's argument with America, 1980 Conflicting stories : American women writers at the turn into the twentieth century, 1990 Ethan Frome, 2005 Brave new words : how literature will save the planet, 2010
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American literary scholar
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Elizabeth Ammons was born on 22 March 1943.
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