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 |
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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 |