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The dream of the great American novel /
"The idea of 'the great American novel' continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. Lawrence Buell demonstrates that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.