Maladies of the will : the American novel and the modernity problem /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fleissner, Jennifer (Jennifer L.) (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Will in literature. American literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

The novel and the will
Before and after the novel: abyssal modernity and the interior life of the will
Vitalizing the bildungsroman
General willfulness: Moby-Dick and romantic sovereignty
The James Brothers at century's end: mysticism, abstraction, and the forms of social life
"Begin all over again": naturalism, habit, and the embodiment of the will
Narrative and its discontents: racial justice, existential action, and the problem of the past.