Alone in America
Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-
Alone in America the stories that matter / [electronic resource] : Robert A. Ferguson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - x, 283 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.L56 / F47 2013eb
813.009/353
Alone in America the stories that matter / [electronic resource] : Robert A. Ferguson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013. - x, 283 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Electronic books.
PS374.L56 / F47 2013eb
813.009/353