Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History

ISBN: 9781107662179 出版年：2014 页码：206 Jones Cambridge University Press

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.