Failure and the american writer: a literary history
Auteur :
Jones, Gavin
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781107662179
Date de publication :
20 janv. 2014
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
340 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Jones explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century American writers - including Poe, Melville and Twain - whose celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy, flawed and even perverse. Here, they emerge as theorists of failure who discovered ways to translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of a modern self.