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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Failure and the American Writer

A Literary History

Jones, Gavin (Stanford University, California)

Failure and the American Writer

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Failure and the American Writer

A Literary History

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture: Failure and the American Writer

 

"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 often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse.


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Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.


ISBN
9781107056671
Pagina's
201
Verschenen
Serie
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
NUR
320
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Cambridge University Press

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