The power of negative thinking [electronic resource] : cynicism and the history of modern American literature / Benjamin Schreier.
Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.Description: xxiii, 230 pISBN:- 9780813928128 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0813928125 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780813928203 (e-book)
- 810.9/353 22
- PS228.C96 S37 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
America and its discontents -- Cynicism and the criticism of competence -- Henry Adams and the failure of usefulness -- Willa Cather's illegible historicism -- The great Gatsby's betrayed Americanism -- Miss Lonelyhearts' insincere theodicy -- Afterword: Invisible literature.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.