01826nam a2200337 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020005300112020002700165040002100192035002100213043001200234050002600246082002000272100003200292245009400324260005700418300001400475504005100489505053200540533015201072650004501224650003001269655002901299710001701328856012601345999001701471ebr10642579CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||120724s2013    mau     sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012027363  z9780674066762 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)  z9780674068032 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)819330033  an-us---14aPS374.L56bF47 2013eb04a813.009/3532231 aFerguson, Robert A.,d1942-10aAlone in Americah[electronic resource] :bthe stories that matter /cRobert A. Ferguson.  aCambridge, Mass. :bHarvard University Press,c2013.  ax, 283 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aDoes 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aAmerican fictionxHistory and criticism. 0aLoneliness in literature. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10642579zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c43859d43859