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BL
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839407
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| Main Entry
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Voelz, Johannes
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| Title & Author
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The poetics of insecurity : : American fiction and the uses of threat /\ Johannes Voelz, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, United Kingdom;New York, NY, USA :: Cambridge University Press,, 2018.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;; 165
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| Page. NO
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xii, 246 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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1108418767
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: 9781108418768
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| Notes
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Series numbering should read: 179.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-242) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : security and the uncertain worlds of fiction -- The virtue of uncertainty : securing the republic in Arthur Mervyn -- Harriet Jacobs's imagined community of insecurity -- Willa Cather and the security of radical contingency -- Cold War liberalism and Flannery O'Connor's "The displaced person" -- In the future, toward death : finance capitalism and security in DeLillo's Cosmopolis -- Epilogue.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 19th century-- Themes, motives.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- Themes, motives.
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Security (Psychology)-- In literature.
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American fiction-- Themes, motives.
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American fiction.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.209
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| LC Classification
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PS377.V64 2018
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