American Dream

Newlin (English, U. of North Carolina Wilmington) compiles 13 essays by English and literature scholars from the US, who consider the contexts and expressions of the American Dream in The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Alger's Ragged Dick, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Louisa May Alcott's A Story of Experience, Willa Cather's O Pioneers!, Anzia Yezierska's The Bread Givers, Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street, Theodor Dreiser's My Sister Carrie and other works, Michael Gold's Jews without Money, Kevin Baker's Dreamland, James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Bernard Malamud's The Assistant, Ameerico Paredes' George Washington Gomez, and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, as well as literature by others. Online access to the full content is included. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)