Alone in America the stories that matter /
Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-
Alone in America the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780674068032
American fiction--History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS374 / .A466 2013
Alone in America the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780674068032
American fiction--History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS374 / .A466 2013