Alone in America the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.

Author/creator Ferguson, Robert A.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Descriptionx, 283 p. ; 20 cm.
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Contents Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-272) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012027363
ISBN9780674066762 (cloth : alk. paper)

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