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.



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American fiction--History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS374 / .A466 2013