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Failure and Success in America: A Literary Debate
By (Author) Martha Banta
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
810.9
Hardback
580
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
936g
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,