| Description |
327 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 314-324) |
| Contents |
The question of form -- A sketch for an historical background -- Fenimore Cooper and the economic age -- Form in Fenimore Cooper's novels -- Symbolism and subject matter -- Hawthorne's short stories -- Hawthorne's novels -- Melville -- Henry James and "life" -- Henry James and the economic age -- Scott Fitzgerald and the collapse of the American Dream -- The Americanness of the American novel -- Hamilton's financial reforms -- The genteel tradition -- The international novel |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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