The power of negative thinking
Subtitle: cynicism and the history of modern American literature
By: Benjamin Schreier.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780813928128
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Cynicism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America and its discontents; title: Cynicism and the criticism of competence; title: Henry Adams and the failure of usefulness; title: Willa Cather's illegible historicism; title: The Great Gatsby's betrayed Americanism; title: Miss Lonelyhearts' insincere theodicy; title: Invisible literature.