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Failure and the American writer: a literary history
Failure and the American writer: a literary history
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Jones, Gavin Roger
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
2014.
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English
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Introduction: Henry Adams and the catastrophic century
1. Falling for Edgar Allan Poe
2. Herman Melville in the doldrum
; 3. The disappointments of Henry David Thoreau
4. Stephen Crane's fake war
5. The double failure of Mark Twain
6. Sarah Orne Jewett falling short
7. The faltering style of Henry James
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American literature
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
Failure (Psychology) in literature
History and criticism
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USA
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9781107662179
9781107056671
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