001479187 000__ 05574nam\a22011295i\4500 001479187 001__ 1479187 001479187 003__ DE-B1597 001479187 005__ 20231102073827.0 001479187 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479187 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479187 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479187 020__ $$a9780674068032 001479187 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674068032$$2doi 001479187 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)178056 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1002232231 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1004876365 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1011461965 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)819330033 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)979832738 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)984627087 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)987944886 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)992518047 001479187 035__ $$a(OCoLC)999354172 001479187 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479187 0410_ $$aeng 001479187 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479187 050_4 $$aPS374.L56$$bF47 2013eb 001479187 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001479187 08204 $$a813.009/353$$223 001479187 1001_ $$aFerguson, Robert A.,$$eauthor. 001479187 24510 $$aAlone in America :$$bThe Stories that Matter /$$cRobert A. Ferguson. 001479187 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479187 264_4 $$c©2013 001479187 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479187 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479187 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479187 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479187 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479187 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tPrologue: The Lords of Life --$$t1. Does Nobody Here Know Rip Van Winkle? --$$t2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Dissects Betrayal --$$t3. Louisa May Alcott Meets Mark Twain over the Young Face of Change --$$t4. Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston Answer Defeat --$$t5. Edith Wharton's Anatomy of Breakdown --$$tMidpoint: The Lords of Life Revisited --$$t6. The Immigrant Novel: Fear in America --$$t7. William Faulkner and Toni Morrison Plot Racial Difference --$$t8. Saul Bellow Observes Old Age --$$t9. Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson Mourn Loss --$$t10. Walt Whitman Finds the Courage to Be --$$tBibliography --$$tIndex 001479187 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479187 520__ $$aRobert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. The theme is a vital one because a greater percentage of people live alone today than at any other time in U.S. history. The many isolated characters in American fiction, Ferguson says, appeal to us through inward claims of identity when pitted against the social priorities of a consensual culture. They indicate how we might talk to ourselves when the same pressures come our way. In fiction, more visibly than in life, defining moments turn on the clarity of an inner conversation. Alone in America tests the inner conversations that work and sometimes fail. It examines the typical elements and moments that force us toward a solitary state-failure, betrayal, change, defeat, breakdown, fear, difference, age, and loss-in their ascending power over us. It underlines the evolving answers that famous figures in literature have given in response. Figures like Mark Twain's Huck Finn and Toni Morrison's Sethe and Paul D., or Louisa May Alcott's Jo March and Marilynne Robinson's John Ames, carve out their own possibilities against ruthless situations that hold them in place. Instead of trusting to often superficial social remedies, or taking thin sustenance from the philosophy of self-reliance, Ferguson says we can learn from our fiction how to live alone. 001479187 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479187 546__ $$aIn English. 001479187 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. 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