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Ann Douglas

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Ann Douglas is Parr Professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Prof. Douglas teaches twentieth-century American literature, film, music, and politics, with an emphasis on the Cold War era, African-American culture, and post-colonial approaches.

Before Columbia, Professor Douglas taught at Princeton from 1970-74 - the first woman to teach in its English Department.

She received a Bicentennial Preceptorship from Princeton for distinguished teaching in 1974, and a fellowship from the National Humanities Center in 1978-79 after publishing The Feminization of American Culture (1977). She received an NEH and Guggenheim fellowship for 1993-94.

Her study Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's (Farrar, Straus, 1995) recei...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 2,098 ratings · 217 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas, Fritz Metsch (Designed by) 4.03 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Feminization of American Culture 3.65 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	NO MORE THAN 4/COOK/ 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas 3.93 avg rating — 24,117 ratings — published 1958 — 68 editions	My rating:
	Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir by Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas (Introduction) 3.97 avg rating — 615 ratings — 16 editions	My rating:
	Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ann Douglas 3.68 avg rating — 44,438 ratings — published 1851 — 420 editions	My rating:
	Charlotte Temple & Lucy Temple by Susanna Rowson, Ann Douglas 2.85 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Ann Douglas (Introduction by) 3.94 avg rating — 529,181 ratings — published 1867 — 676 editions	My rating:
	Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ann Douglas 3.94 avg rating — 885 ratings — published 1920 — 100 editions	My rating:
	Young Lonigan by James T. Farrell, Ann Douglas 3.31 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1932 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Probably everything in my life comes back to a feeling of abandonment, and this city never abandons you.”
― Ann Douglas

tags: abandonment , new-york , new-york-city , nyc

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“Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.”
― Ann Douglas

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