The Battle of “the Dynamo” and “the Virgin” in Turn-of-the-Century New York City Narratives: A Sociohistorical Reading of America’s Urban Frontier in Steven Millhauser and Henry James
Wasn’t America the land of opportunity? And wasn’t the Vanderlyn Hotel a golden opportunity?” (MD 18):[1] Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer (1996) aptly dramatizes the role of Henry Adams’s agonistic clash between “the Dynamo and the Virgin” in the construction of...
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School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media |
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| Online Access: | https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/ExCentric/article/view/8404 |