Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History
Awards:   Short-listed for PROSE Award for Literature 2015 Short-listed for PROSE Awards: Literature 2015 Shortlisted for PROSE Awards: Literature 2015.
Author:   Gavin Jones (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   168
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9781107662179


Pages:   211
Publication Date:   20 January 2014
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Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History


Awards

  • Short-listed for PROSE Award for Literature 2015
  • Short-listed for PROSE Awards: Literature 2015
  • Shortlisted for PROSE Awards: Literature 2015.

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Author:   Gavin Jones (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   168
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781107662179


ISBN 10:   1107662176
Pages:   211
Publication Date:   20 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Henry Adams and the catastrophic century; 1. Falling for Edgar Allan Poe; 2. Herman Melville in the doldrums; 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; Conclusion.

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Gavin Jones is Professor of English at Stanford University, where he currently serves as department Chair. A former Junior Fellow in Harvard University's Society of Fellows, Jones is the author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America (1999) and American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in US Literature, 1840-1945 (2007). He has published numerous articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature in journals such as American Literary History, African American Review and New England Quarterly.

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