Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-272) and index.
Contents
Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.
