The poetics of insecurity : American fiction and the uses of threat / Johannes Voelz (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: security and the uncertain worlds of fiction
- The virtue of uncertainty: securing the republic in Arthur Mervyn
- Harriet Jacobs's imagined community of insecurity
- Willa Cather and the security of radical contingency
- Cold War liberalism and Flannery O'Connor's "The displaced person"
- In the future, toward death: finance capitalism and security in DeLillo's Cosmopolis.