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Author Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-

Title Alone in America [electronic resource] : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 283 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
Loneliness in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674066762 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
9780674068032 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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