Failure and the American writer : a literary history /
"If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose celebrated works more o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Skillman Upper Level
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PS217.F33 J66 2014 |
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