Virginia Spencer Carr, Dos Passos: a life, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-12964-0
Jonathan Freedman, Professions of taste: Henry James, British aestheticism and commodity culture, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-8047-1784-7
... might prefer hard mode, according to Harvard’s Elizabeth Bonawitz. exploration, mastery, autonomy, social connection, aesthetic experience—and even meaning, famously tricky though it is to define.