The American dream
By: editor, Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Pr Inc
Published: 2013
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781429838214
Subjects: American Dream in literature; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Critical contexts. The rise and fall of the American dream: from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Death of a salesman / Donna Packer-Kinlaw; title: "To go into partnership": gender, class, ethnicity, and the American dream in Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth / Linda Kornasky; title: Meaningful work and self-determination: the American dream for women / Carol S. Loranger; title: Why speak of American stories as dreams? / Cara Elana Erdheim; title: Critical esays. The American dream, the Western frontier, and the literature of expansion / Steven Frye; title: Dreiser and the Dream / Roark Mulligan; title: The great Gatsby and the American dream / James Nagel; title: Survival and transcendence: the Jewish American immigrant and the American dream / James R. Giles; title: Blurring the color line: race and the American dream in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, passing, and Cane / Andrew Vogel; title: After Auschwitz, Connecticut?: dreams and disappointments in mid-twentieth-century American literature / Tiffany Gilbert; title: The assimilated and unassimilated in Bernard Malamud's The assistant / Quentin Martin; title: American Indians and the American dream: "a world in which we had no part" / Lee Schweninger; title: Mexican Americans encounter the American dream: George Washington Gomez / Ramon J. Guerra.