SECRET HISTORIES: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

Literary Nation-Building

SECRET HISTORIES: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

By David Wyatt

2010

First printing of Wyatt's studies in the American literature of the last century, warmly inscribed to poet Stanley Plumly.

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Price: $75.00

SECRET HISTORIES: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature

"The promised pursuit of happiness — Didion later will label it 'a consumption ethic' — leads, too often, to this, to a state of paranoid isolation and narcissistic craving in which, as another prophet from the sixties went on to tell us, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose."

The Object

First edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. Original cream cloth. No jacket, likely as issued. xix, [3], 400 pages. Inscribed by Wyatt on front free endpaper: "To Stan, to the expectation and memory of years of friendship, David." Additionally signed by Wyatt on title page. Minimal edgewear.

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