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    Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
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    Exiled royalties Melville and the life we imagine / by Milder, Robert

    Published 2006
    Table of Contents: “…Melville and Polynesia -- The broken circle: Melville and (post-)romanticism -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (1): Melville's metaphysics of democracy: "Hawthorne and his mosses" -- The theory and practice of democratic tragedy (2): Ishmael's grand erections -- Exiled royalties -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of Homoerotic experience -- An arch between two lives: Melville and the Mediterranean, 1856-1857 -- Uncivil wars -- Unworldly yearners: agnostic spirituality in Clarel -- Alms for oblivion.…”
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    The making of Americans in Paris the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein / by Sloboda, Noel

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction -- Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life -- Hometown Paris -- Lessons from and for Henry James -- Wartime tragedy and opportunity -- Epilogue.…”
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    The making of Americans in Paris the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein / by Sloboda, Noel

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction -- Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life -- Hometown Paris -- Lessons from and for Henry James -- Wartime tragedy and opportunity -- Epilogue.…”
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    Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy / by Payne, Phillip G.

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last.…”
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    Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy / by Payne, Phillip G.

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last.…”
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    Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…-- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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    Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy / by Diggins, John P.

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…-- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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    The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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    The last titan a life of Theodore Dreiser / by Loving, Jerome, 1941-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.…”
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