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Verlag: Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974, 1974
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
, Lynn, Kenneth S., 1923-2001. Visions of America. Eleven literary historical essays. With an introduction by Robert H. Walker. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1974, second printing, xv, 205pp., good dust-jacket BUT spine quite faded, very good blue cloth, light foxing on top foredge. CONTENTS: Walden.--Uncle Tom's cabin.--Huckleberry Finn.--Howells in the nineties.--The octopus.--Sister Carrie.--Living my life.--Trumpets of jubilee.--Patriotic gore.--The achievement of John Dos Passos.--Violence in American literature and folklore. 9780837163864 ISBN 0837163862.
Verlag: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, 1955
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Lynn, Kenneth S., 1923-2001. The Dream of Success. A Study of the Modern American Imagination. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1955, stated First Edition, 269pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, spine faded. Entertaining and insightful study of the effect of the Horation Alger myth of success on American writers who claimed to pursue other values but were obsessed with success. Deals with Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, David Graham Phillips, Frank Norris, and Robert Herrick. The values of material culture may not be satisfyiing, but for those obsessed by them it is hard to imagine alternatives. Most amusing, the writerly habit of suddenly casting characters back into poverty so they can start pulling themselves up by their bootstraps again.