Failure and Success in America : : A Literary Debate / / Martha Banta.

Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1979
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1803
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Physical Description:1 online resource (580 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • PART I. The More or Less of Success
  • PART II. Ideas of the Land
  • PART III. Winning and Losing
  • PART IV. Renewal or Revenge
  • PART V. The Drive Toward Conclusions
  • PART VI. The Economics of Going On
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter