| Description |
xi, 293 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translation of Le roman américain d'aujourd'hui. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
The case against the puritans -- How Nathaniel Hawthorne exorcised Hester Prynne -- Henry James, Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells and American society on parade -- Theodore Dreiser as a bio-chemist -- Theodore Dreiser and the American tragedy -- Sinclair Lewis and the average man -- Sherwood Anderson or when the dreamer awakes -- Sherwood Anderson on this side of freud -- James Branch Cabell on the excape to poictesme -- James Branch Cabell on the high place -- Reinforcements: Willa Cather, Zona Gale, Floyd Dell, Joseph Hergesheimer, Waldo Frank -- Ulysses' companions: Robert McAlmon, Ben Hecht, William Carlos Williams. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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