Ferguson, Robert A.  1942- <br/><br/>
Alone in America  the stories that matter /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert A. Ferguson. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Harvard University Press,  2013. 
 - x, 283 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674068032 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.<br/>Loneliness in literature.