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Success in literature. --- Melville, Herman, --- Potter, Israel, --- In literature. --- United States --- History --- Literature and the revolution. --- Melville, Herman (1819-1891) --- Critique et interprétation

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National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Mexican Americans in literature. --- Success in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Mexican Americans in literature --- Success in literature --- Myth in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Hinojosa, Rolando --- Hinojosa-S., Rolando R. --- Hinojosa Smith, Rolando --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Texas --- In literature. --- Criticism and interpretation --- National characteristics [American ] in literature

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Ranging widely over a span of three hundred and fifty years of discussion and controversy, Martha Banta's book makes a fundamental contribution to the continuing debate on the nature of success and failure in a specifically American context. Her Whitmanesque view of the debate takes in the work of innumerable writers, particularly Emerson, Thoreau, Twain, Melville, Henry Adams, William and Henry James, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, and Norman Mailer. She draws on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and historians as well. Rather than discussing failure and success as merely economic or political statistics, Professor Banta explores them in terms of attitudes and concepts. She asks what it feels like for an American to succeed or fail in a country that is often defined in relation to its own success or failure as an idea and as an experience. While examining the thoughts, feelings, and language of Americans caught in the dialectic between winning and losing, the author reveals the strain Americans feel in fulfilling the overall scheme of their own lives as well as the life or destiny of their country.Originally published in 1979.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

American literature --- Failure (Psychology) in literature. --- Literature --- Success in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Psychology. --- Failure (Psychology) in literature --- Success in literature --- Aesthetics --- Psychology and literature --- United States --- Civilization. --- History and criticism --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Criticism and interpretation --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Twain, Mark --- Adams, Henry Brooks --- James, Henry --- Stein, Gertrude --- Franklin, Benjamin --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Faulkner, William --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Whitman, Walt --- Mailer, Norman --- James, William --- Miller, Perry --- Littérature américaine --- Histoire et critique

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A person who reads a book for self-improvement rather than aesthetic pleasure is "reading up." Reading Up is Amy Blair's engaging study of popular literary critics who promoted reading generally and specific books as vehicles for acquiring cultural competence and economic mobility. Combining methodologies from the history of the book and the history of reading, to mass-cultural studies, reader-response criticism, reception studies, and formalist literary analysis, Blair shows how such critics influenced the choices of striving readers and popularized some elite writers.