Alone in America
Subtitle: the stories that matter
By: Robert A. Ferguson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780674066762
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Loneliness in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle?; title: Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal; title: Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change; title: Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat; title: Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown; title: Midpoint: the lords of life revisited; title: The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America; title: William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference; title: Saul Bellow observes old age; title: Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss; title: Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.