If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature
dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with
failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan
Poe and Herman Melville to Mark Twain and Sarah Orne Jewett - whose
celebrated works more often struck readers as profoundly messy,
flawed and even perverse. Reading textual inconsistency against the
backdrop of a turbulent nineteenth century, Gavin Jones describes
how the difficulties these writers faced in their faltering search
for new styles, coherent characters and satisfactory endings
uncovered experiences of blunder and inadequacy hidden in the
culture at large. Through Jones's treatment, these American writers
emerge as the great theorists of failure who discovered ways to
translate their own social insecurities into complex portrayals of
a modern self, founded in moral fallibility, precarious knowledge
and negative feelings.
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