| Edition |
[2d ed.] |
| Description |
316 pages : 24 cm |
| Issued By |
Shaper of romance / J. Fenimore Cooper -- The romantic novel: coda -- Apocalyptic / Charles Brockden Brown -- The terror of the soul / Poe -- The seeker / Herman Melville -- Poe redivivus / Bierce and Hearn -- The fury of William Faulkner -- A revaluation / Washington Irving -- Bystander / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Life refracted by temperament / Henry James -- The James influence / Edith Wharton and Willa Cather -- Ernest Hemingway and the "fifth dimension" -- The education of Thomas Wolf -- Realistic whimsy / John Steinbeck -- Howell's Grasshopper -- Realism and the frontier / Mark Twain -- Naturalism nascent / Crane and Norris -- Philosopher / Theodore Dreiser -- Literary collectivist / John Dos Passos -- The nearly animal kingdom / Erskine Caldwell and Vardis Fisher -- James T. Farrell and the poverty of spirit |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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