| Description |
192 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 184-190. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Sense of the sense of the past -- "This comes of settling a country!": James Fenimore Cooper's The pioneers (1823) -- "The fluctuating waves of our social life": Nathaniel Hawthorne's The house of seven gables (1851) -- Visiting the "engine room": Henry Adams's Democracy (1880) -- "Hurried particles in the stream": Henry James's The Bostonians (1886) -- "The whirling surface of existence": Edith Wharton's The house of mirth (1905) -- "Roving tribes" and "brutal invaders": Willa Cather's The professors' house (1925) -- "The diminished grandeur of Washington Street": Ellen Glasgow's The sheltered life (1932) -- "The shock of communion": Allen Tate's The fathers (1938) -- "The price had been necessity": William Faulkner's The hamlet (1940) -- "The lost and impossible miles": A.B. Guthrie, Jr.'s These thousand hills (1956) -- Conclusion: Present situation. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Social change in literature.
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Social change in literature. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Stineback, David C., 1943- Shifting world. Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c1976 (OCoLC)643651464 |
| ISBN |
0838716865 : $11.50 |
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9780838716861 |
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