Author: See, Fred G.
Title: Desire and the Sign: Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Description: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, (1987). orig.boards.. 23x15cm, ix,183 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Magic from the Caverns of the Soul; Harriet Beecher Stowe & the Structure of Desire; Incest & Language in 'Pierre'; Howells & the Failure of Desire; Dreiser's Lost Language of the Heart; Henry James & the Art of Possession; Conclusion; Touring the Ruins.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, American Literature, Fiction, H.B. Stowe, Herman Melville, W.D. Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James,