Eugene O'Neill's America : desire under democracy / / John Patrick Diggins.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Diggins, John P.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xv, 305 p.

Table of Contents

• Knowers unknown to ourselves
• The misery of the misbegotten
• The playwright as thinker
• Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness"
• Beginnings of American history
• "Lust for possession"
• Possessed and self-dispossessed
• "Is you a nigger, nigger?"
• "The merest sham": women and marriage
• Religion and the death of death
• "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever"
• Waiting for hickey
• The theater as temple.