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The American dream
- Title
- The American dream / editor, Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
- Publication
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing ; Grey House Publishing, 2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-4445 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Newlin, Keith.
- Description
- xii, 266 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Critical insights
- Uniform Title
- Critical insights.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Critical contexts. The rise and fall of the American dream: from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Death of a salesman / Donna Packer-Kinlaw -- "To go into partnership": gender, class, ethnicity, and the American dream in Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth / Linda Kornasky -- Meaningful work and self-determination: the American dream for women / Carol S. Loranger -- Why speak of American stories as dreams? / Cara Elana Erdheim -- Critical esays. The American dream, the Western frontier, and the literature of expansion / Steven Frye -- Dreiser and the Dream / Roark Mulligan -- The great Gatsby and the American dream / James Nagel -- Survival and transcendence: the Jewish American immigrant and the American dream / James R. Giles -- Blurring the color line: race and the American dream in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, passing, and Cane / Andrew Vogel -- After Auschwitz, Connecticut?: dreams and disappointments in mid-twentieth-century American literature / Tiffany Gilbert -- The assimilated and unassimilated in Bernard Malamud's The assistant / Quentin Martin -- American Indians and the American dream: "a world in which we had no part" / Lee Schweninger -- Mexican Americans encounter the American dream: George Washington Gomez / Ramon J. Guerra.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-4445
- ISBN
- 9781429838214 (hardcover)
- 1429838213 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2012049036
- OCLC
- 826859581
- Title
- The American dream / editor, Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
- Publisher
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing ; Grey House Publishing, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical insightsCritical insights.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Newlin, Keith.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-4445