False starts: the rhetoric of failure and the making of American modernism
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
The Rhetoric of Failure and the Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald
3
The Rhetoric of Failure
6
The Making of American Modernism
17
Second Acts
22
Chapter One
The Prestige of Failure: Modern Sentiments in Susan Warner and
Herman Melville
27
Sentimental Connections, Scribbling Women, and Impugned
Success
29
The Shared Stage of Warner and Melville
38
Kxcessive Agitation: Reading, Writing, and the Public Sphere in
The Wide, Wide World
43
Crossing the Rubicon: Authorial Autonomy and Anxiety in Pierre
53
Chapter Two
The Economies of Failure: The Culture of
Antisemitism
in
Henry Adams and Edith Wharton
67
Putting the Pot on to Boil
70
Degeneration and the Culture of
Antisemitism
81
The Dream of Unity : The Education of Henry Adams and the
Paradigm of Failure
88
Economic Imperatives and Ethical Contingencies in The House
of Mirth
100
Chapter Three
The Inscription of Failure: Signifying Documents in
William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison
113
Forging Documents
116
Intact Ashes: The Documentation of Failure in Absalom, Absalom!
124
Theories of Alterity
143
Trump-a-Chump: Closed Documents in Invisible Man
150
Afterword
The Persistence of Failure: Chris Ware s Graphic Narratives
and the Afterlife of Modernism
167
Comics against Themselves
169
Comics as Literature
171
Loose Ends
276
Notes
183
Index
227
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