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- 008 130926s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
- 020 __ |a 9781107056671 : |c CNY448.55
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |c HDU |d YDX |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d MUU |d IUL |d CDX |d XLM |d SKYRV
- 050 00 |a PS217.F33 |b J66 2014
- 082 00 |a 810.9/003 |2 23
- 100 1_ |a Jones, Gavin Roger, |d 1968- |e author.
- 245 10 |a Failure and the American writer : |b a literary history / |c Gavin Jones.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2014.
- 300 __ |a xii, 191 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm.
- 490 1_ |a Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 505 0_ |a 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.
- 520 __ |a "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.
- 650 _0 |a American literature |y 19th century |x History and criticism.
- 650 _0 |a Failure (Psychology) in literature.