Alone in America : the stories that matter /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.