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American Tantalus: Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture

Contributor(s): Warnes, Andrew (Author)

ISBN: 9781623561079

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Pub Date: October 23, 2014

Dewey: 810.9353

LCCN: 2014016845

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.50" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.99 lbs) 208 pages

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Shows that tantalisation--the pursuit of objects that recede from all attempts to reach them--preoccupies much modern US fiction, and investigates the reasons behind this fascination.

Brief description: Andrew Warnes is Reader in American Studies in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK.

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