Failure and the American Writer / Jones Gavin

Public ISBD Titre : Failure and the American Writer : A Literary History Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Jones Gavin, Auteur Editeur : Cambridge [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2014 Collection : Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Importance : 211 p. Format : 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimetres (0.32 kg) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-107-66217-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : The.American  Writer. Résumé : 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. Note de contenu : 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. Failure and the American Writer : A Literary History [texte imprimé] / Jones Gavin, Auteur . - Cambridge (United Kingdom) : Cambridge University Press, 2014 . - 211 p. ; 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 centimetres (0.32 kg). - (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) . ISBN : 978-1-107-66217-9 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : The.American  Writer. Résumé : 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. Note de contenu : 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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