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1 online resource. |
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Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Critical contexts. The rise and fall of the American dream: from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to Death of a salesman / Donna Packer-Kinlaw -- "To go into partnership": gender, class, ethnicity, and the American dream in Edith Wharton's The house of Mirth / Linda Kornasky -- Meaningful work and self-determination: the American dream for women / Carol S. Loranger -- Why speak of American stories as dreams? / Cara Elana Erdheim -- Critical esays. The American dream, the Western frontier, and the literature of expansion / Steven Frye -- Dreiser and the Dream / Roark Mulligan -- The great Gatsby and the American dream / James Nagel -- Survival and transcendence: the Jewish American immigrant and the American dream / James R. Giles -- Blurring the color line: race and the American dream in The autobiography of an ex-coloured man, passing, and Cane / Andrew Vogel -- After Auschwitz, Connecticut?: dreams and disappointments in mid-twentieth-century American literature / Tiffany Gilbert -- The assimilated and unassimilated in Bernard Malamud's The assistant / Quentin Martin -- American Indians and the American dream: "a world in which we had no part" / Lee Schweninger -- Mexican Americans encounter the American dream: George Washington Gomez / Ramon J. Guerra. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book provides readers with essays that explore the contexts and expressions of the American Dream as it is reflected in our imaginative literature. The essays survey the critical conversation regarding the theme, explore its cultural and historical contexts, and offer close and comparative readings of key texts in the genre. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American Dream in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American Dream in literature. (OCoLC)fst01902351
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Newlin, Keith.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The American dream. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Publishing : Grey House Publishing, [2013] 9781429838214 (OCoLC)826859581 |
| ISBN |
142983837X (electronic bk.) |
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9781429838375 (electronic bk.) |
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