American nervousness, 1903 : an anecdotal history / Tom Lutz.
| Author/creator |
Lutz, Tom |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991. |
| Description | xiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Making it big : Theodore Dreiser, sex, and success -- The big stick and the cash value of ideas : Theodore Roosevelt and William James -- Hamlin Garland's despair and Edgar Saltus's disenchantment -- Frank Norris : nationalism, naturalism, and the supernatural -- William Dean Howells : Letters Home, Questionable Shapes, and the American Unheimlich -- Local color, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and the limits of propriety -- Women and economics in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edith Wharton -- The blues and the double consciousness of Henry James and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Concluding anecdotes : "The death of the strenuous self". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index. |
| LCCN | 90055737 |
| ISBN | 0801425816 |
| ISBN | 9780801425813 |
| ISBN | 0801499011 |
| ISBN | 9780801499012 |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | E169.1.L88 1991 | ✔ Available | Place Hold | |
| Laupus | Books - Stacks | WM 174 L975A 1991 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |