Eugene O'Neill's America : desire under democracy / John Patrick Diggins.
| Author/creator | Diggins, John P. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Description | xv, 305 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index. |
| LCCN | 2006051409 |
| ISBN | 9780226148809 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226148807 (cloth : alk. paper) |