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Author:

Diggins, John P.

Title:

Eugene O'Neill's America : desire under democracy / John Patrick Diggins.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xv, 305 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953.
O'Neill, Eugene,--1888-1953--Criticism and interpretation.
Dramatists, American--20th century--Biography.
Dramatists, American--20th century--Family relationships.
Dramatists, American--20th century--Psychology.
America--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-282) and index.

Contents:

Knowers unknown to ourselves -- The misery of the misbegotten -- The playwright as thinker -- Anarchism: the politics of the "long loneliness" -- Beginnings of American history -- "Lust for possession" -- Possessed and self-dispossessed -- "Is you a nigger, nigger?" -- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.

ISBN:

0226148807 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226148809 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006051409

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)