| Description |
xii, 877 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
American literature series
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American literature series.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 861-862. |
| Contents |
At the beginning -- Early Satire and realism -- Vaulting ambition: Brockden Brown and others -- James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- Contemporaries and immediate followers of Cooper, I -- Contemporaries and immediate followers of Cooper, II -- The mixed thirties -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Herman Melville -- The domestic sentimentalists and other popular writers -- Experiment and tradition -- Civil war and reconstruction -- Local-color, frontier, and regional fiction -- Mark Twain -- William Dean Howells -- Henry James -- New Directors |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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