Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
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Series numbering should read: 179.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-242) and index.
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.
American fiction-- 19th century-- Themes, motives.
American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
American fiction-- 20th century-- Themes, motives.