Failure and the American Writer

By Gavin Jones

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107662176
• ISBN13: 9781107662179
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"