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American fictions / Elizabeth Hardwick.
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- ISBN: 0375754822 (acid-free paper) :
- Physical Description: xx, 352 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1999 Modern Library pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1999.
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| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | American literature > History and criticism. |
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Table of Contents
American Fictions
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. ix | |
| Locations: An Introduction | p. xiii | |
| Old New York | ||
| Bartleby in Manhattan | p. 3 | |
| Mrs. Wharton in New York | p. 15 | |
| Henry James: On Washington Square | p. 36 | |
| Americans Abroad | ||
| The Genius of Margaret Fuller | p. 51 | |
| A Bunch of Reds: John Reed | p. 75 | |
| Gertrude Stein | p. 92 | |
| The Fate of the Gifted: Djuna Barnes | p. 104 | |
| Wind from the Prairie | ||
| The Prairie Poets: Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Edgar Lee Masters | p. 115 | |
| Anderson, Millay, and Crane in Their Letters | p. 133 | |
| Victims and Victors | ||
| Seduction and Betrayal | p. 143 | |
| Zelda | p. 168 | |
| Sylvia Plath | p. 181 | |
| Eugene O'Neill: A Sketch | p. 198 | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Mary McCarthy | p. 207 | |
| Nabokov: Master Class | p. 212 | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | p. 218 | |
| The Sense of the Present | ||
| Guilt, Character, Possibilities | p. 227 | |
| Fictions of America | ||
| Cheever; or, The Ambiguities | p. 239 | |
| Citizen Updike | p. 251 | |
| Paradise Lost: Philip Roth | p. 265 | |
| In the Wasteland: Joan Didion | p. 277 | |
| Reckless People: Richard Ford | p. 287 | |
| Lives | ||
| Katherine Anne Porter | p. 299 | |
| Edmund Wilson | p. 308 | |
| Truman Capote: Tru Confessions | p. 320 | |
| Norman Mailer: The Teller and the Tape | p. 333 | |
| Index | p. 343 | |
| Permissions Acknowledgments | p. 353 |
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