Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The rhetoric of failure and the case study of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The prestige of failure : modern sentiments in Susan Warner and Herman Melville
  • The economies of failure : the culture of antisemitism in Henry Adams and Edith Wharton
  • The inscription of failure : signifying documents in William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison
  • Afterword : the persistence of failure : Chris Ware's graphic narratives and the afterlife of modernism.