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题名/责任者:

Failure and the American writer : a literary history / Gavin Jones.

出版发行项:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

ISBN:

9781107056671 :

ISBN:

1107056675

ISBN:

9781107662179

ISBN:

1107662176

载体形态项:

xii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

丛编说明:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture

个人责任者:

Jones, Gavin Roger, 1968- author.

论题主题:

American literature-19th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Failure (Psychology) in literature.

中图法分类号:

I712.064

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

内容附注:

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.

摘要附注:

"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. Reading textual inconsistency against the backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge and negative feelings"--Provided by publisher.

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