Ferguson, Robert A.,  1942- <br/><br/>
Alone in America  the stories that matter /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert A. Ferguson. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2013. 
 - x, 283 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Loneliness in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374.L56  / F47 2013eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813.009/353