01826nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10642579 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 120724s2013 mau sb 001 0 eng d 2012027363 9780674066762 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper) 9780674068032 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)819330033 n-us--- PS374.L56 F47 2013eb 813.009/353 23 Ferguson, Robert A., 1942- Alone in America [electronic resource] : the stories that matter / 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. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10642579 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 43859 43859