American tantalus : horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture /: horizons, happiness, and the impossible pursuits of US literature and culture. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Impossible pursuits of US literature and culture
• Further Information: Note: Andrew Warnes.
• Authors: Warnes, Andrew, 1974-
• Contents: Introduction: Do Not Touch -- 1. Perpetual persuits: happiness, horizons, and other elusive objects in modern US culture -- 2. The becoming blank: fantasies of invisibility after the frontier -- 3. Play things: toys at the edge of whiteness -- 4. Necessary torments: temptations, falls, and bodily compensations in modern US culture -- Conclusion: beyond fetishism.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Subjects: 810.9/353; Media studies; American literature -- History and criticism; Desire in literature; Teasing in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Material culture in literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; American literature; Consumption (Economics) in literature; Desire in literature; Material culture in literature; Modernism (Literature); National characteristics, American, in literature; Searching behavior in literature; Teasing in literature; Literatur; Amerikanisches Englisch; Begierde; Literary studies: general; Social Science -- Media Studies; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; United States; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781628920017; 1628920017
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.