Bruce, Dickson Davies, Jr.

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BRUCE, Dickson Davies, Jr.

BRUCE, Dickson Davies, Jr. American, b. 1946. Genres: History. Career: Professor, University of California, Irvine, 1971-. Visiting Professor, Attila Jozsef University, Szeged, Hungary, 1987-88. Publications: And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845, 1974; Violence and Culture in the Antebellum South, 1979; The Rhetoric of Conservatism: The Virginia Convention of 1829-30 and the Conservative Tradition in the South, 1982; Black American Writing from the Nadir: The Evolution of a Literary Tradition 1877-1915, 1989; Archibald Grimke: Portrait of a Black Independent, 1993; The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865, 2001. Address: Dept of History, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A.

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