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Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate
Contributors:
By (Author) Martha Banta
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
810.9
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
580
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
992g
Description
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 of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau,
