Alone in America : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.
2013
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Title
Alone in America : the stories that matter / Robert A. Ferguson.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Call Number
PS374.L56 F47 2013
ISBN
9780674066762 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
0674066766 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
0674066766 ((cloth; alk. paper) : alk. paper)
Description
x, 283 pages ; 20 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)792886649
Summary
With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: The Lords of Life
1
1.
Does Nobody Here Know Rip Van Winkle?
17
2.
Nathaniel Hawthorne Dissects Betrayal
35
3.
Louisa May Alcott Meets Mark Twain over the Young Face of Change
61
4.
Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston Answer Defeat
90
5.
Edith Wharton's Anatomy of Breakdown
116
Midpoint: The Lords of Life Revisited
135
6.
The Immigrant Novel: Fear in America
141
7.
William Faulkner and Toni Morrison Plot Racial Difference
157
8.
Saul Bellow Observes Old Age
180
9.
Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson Mourn Loss
201
10.
Walt Whitman Finds the Courage to Be
231
Bibliography
253
Index
273