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John Patrick Diggins

Eugene O'Neill's America

Desire Under Democracy

288 pages,  6 x 9  © 2007

Cloth $29.00

ISBN: 9780226148809   Published May 2007

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: Knowers Unknown to Ourselves

1.  The Misery of the Misbegotten
2.  The Playwright as Thinker
3.  Anarchism: The Politics of the "Long Lonliness"
4.  Beginnings of American History
5.  "Lust for Possession"
6.  Possessed and Self-dispossessed
7.  "Is You a Nigger, Nigger?"
8.  "The Merest Sham": Women and Marriage
9.  Religion and the Death of Death
10. "The Greek Dream in Tragedy Is the Noblest Ever"
11. Waiting for Hickey

Conclusion: The Theater as Temple

Notes
Index
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