Failure and the American Writer : a Literary History / Gavin Jones.
"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 struc...
| Uniform Title: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Physical Description: | xii, 191 pages. |
| Format: | Book |