Nobody's Home: Speech, Self, and Place in American Fiction from Hawthorne to DeLillo

by Arnold Weinstein

Book Overview

Nobody's Home is a bold view of the American novel from its beginnings to the contemporary scene. Focusing on some of the deepest instincts of American life and culture--individual liberty, freedom of speech, constructing a life--Arnold Weinstein brilliantly sketches the remarkable career of the American self in some of the major works of the past one hundred fifty years. Weinstein contends that American writers are haunted by the twin specters of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508022X
• ISBN13: 9780195080223
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"