American nervousness, 1903 : an anecdotal history / Tom Lutz.

Author/creator Lutz, Tom
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Descriptionxiii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Neurasthenia--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --20th century.
Neurasthenia--history. --United States.
Social Conditions--history. --United States.
United States--Civilization. --1865-1918. --Psychological aspects.

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".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.
LCCN 90055737
ISBN0801425816
ISBN9780801425813
ISBN0801499011
ISBN9780801499012

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E169.1.L88 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Books - Stacks WM 174 L975A 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold