http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Making it big : Theodore Dreiser, sex, and success -- The big stick and the cash value of ideas : Theodore Roosevelt and William James -- Hamlin Garland's despair and Edgar Saltus's disenchantment -- Frank Norris : nationalism, naturalism, and the supernatural -- William Dean Howells : Letters Home, Questionable Shapes, and the American Unheimlich -- Local color, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and the limits of propriety -- Women and economics in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edith Wharton -- The blues and the double consciousness of Henry James and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Concluding anecdotes : "The death of the strenuous self".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-317) and index.