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Alone in America : the stories that matter
- Title
- Alone in America : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.
- Author
- Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- x, 283 p.; 20 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: The Lords of Life -- 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 defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear 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.
- Call Number
- JFC 13-15
- ISBN
- 9780674066762
- 0674066766
- LCCN
- 2012027363
- OCLC
- 792886649
- 2012027363
- Author
- Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-
- Title
- Alone in America : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-272) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFC 13-15