| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 567 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-537) and index. |
| Contents |
Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text: the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- American dreamers in context -- "Success" stories from Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from narrative in hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Shifting ratios, dangerous proximities -- Uncle Tom's cabin and its aftermaths -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its others -- Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Fatalisms of the multitude -- Melville's Moby-Dick: from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of twentieth-century breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.--or Steinbeck's Grapes of wrath? -- Late twentieth-century maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow--and its rainbow. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- In literature.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Buell, Lawrence, author. Dream of the great American novel 9780674051157 (DLC) 2013032745 (OCoLC)840460733 |
| ISBN |
9780674726321 (electronic book) |
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0674726324 (electronic book) |
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9780674051157 |
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0674051157 |
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