The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.
The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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G 2014/3704
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 567 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Success" stories from Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- U...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2014.
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Summary
"The idea of 'the great American novel' continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonst...
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The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-537) and index.
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G 2014/3704
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74VKveXkBMod
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ISBN
0674051157 (alk. paper)
9780674051157 (alk. paper)
DDC
813.009
MMS ID
991021700729702626
