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Vital signs : essays on American literature and criticism / James W. Tuttleton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, Ill : I.R. Dee, 1996.Description: xiii, 366 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1566631009 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS121 .T88 1996
Contents:
Parkman and the emptiness of postmodern history -- American manhood and the literature of adventure -- Irving's Spaniards : the romance of history -- Consecrating evil : Emerson and Hawthorne -- Sex and socialism : becoming Margaret Fuller -- The marrying kind : James's The American -- Propriety and fine perception : James's The Europeans -- William Dean Howells and the uses of criticism -- The elusive Stephen Crane -- The perils of solitude : Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Radical bewilderment : the case of Jack London -- Edith Wharton : the archaeological motive -- Emasculating papa : Hemingway at bay -- Vitality and vampirism in Tender is the night -- Sherwood Anderson : a room of his own -- Hardy and Ellen Glasgow : Barren ground -- The physician-writer and the cure of the soul -- Jacques et moi -- Some modern sophists.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Parkman and the emptiness of postmodern history -- American manhood and the literature of adventure -- Irving's Spaniards : the romance of history -- Consecrating evil : Emerson and Hawthorne -- Sex and socialism : becoming Margaret Fuller -- The marrying kind : James's The American -- Propriety and fine perception : James's The Europeans -- William Dean Howells and the uses of criticism -- The elusive Stephen Crane -- The perils of solitude : Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Radical bewilderment : the case of Jack London -- Edith Wharton : the archaeological motive -- Emasculating papa : Hemingway at bay -- Vitality and vampirism in Tender is the night -- Sherwood Anderson : a room of his own -- Hardy and Ellen Glasgow : Barren ground -- The physician-writer and the cure of the soul -- Jacques et moi -- Some modern sophists.