TY - BOOK AU - Ferguson,Robert A. TI - Alone in America: the stories that matter SN - 9780674068032 AV - PS374 .A466 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Loneliness in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=502799&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -