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Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Failure and the American Writer A Literary History - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Author: 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 struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed, and even ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781107056671
ISBN-10: 1107056675
Publication Date: 1/20/2014
Pages: 206
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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