Title
- 1903
Attribution
Tom LutzPublication Details
BookCornell University Press1991Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .L88 1991 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse–all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America’s intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Making it big : Theodore Dreiser, sex, and success
- The big stick and the cash value of ideas : Theodore Roosevelt and William James
- Hamlin Garland’s despair and Edgar Saltus’s disenchantment
- Frank Norris : nationalism, naturalism, and the supernatural
- William Dean Howells : Letters Home, Questionable Shapes, and the American Unheimlich
- Local color, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and the limits of propriety
- Women and economics in the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edith Wharton
- The blues and the double consciousness of Henry James and W. E. B. Du Bois
- Concluding anecdotes : "The death of the strenuous self"
ISBN
- 0801425816
- 0801499011
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