The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Description: xii, 567 pages ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780674051157
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- In literature
- 813.009 23
- PS377 .B84 2014
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| PS374 .Y57 C37 2011 Young adult literature : from romance to realism / | PS374 .Y57 T69 2017 LGBTQ young adult fiction : a critical survey, 1970s-2010s / | PS375 .S65 The American literary revolution, 1783-1837, | PS377 .B84 2014 The dream of the great American novel / | PS377 .D66 1998 Competing voices : the American novel, 1865-1914 / | PS377 .H6 Form and fable in American fiction. | PS377 .S6 The adventurous muse : the poetics of American fiction,1789-1900 / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Success" stories from Benjamin Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from stories in hyphenated America : Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Uncle Tom's cabin and its aftermaths -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its others -- Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Toni Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Melville's Moby-Dick : from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of early twentieth century breakdown : Dos Passos's U.S.A. or Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath? -- Late twentieth-century maximalism : Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow and its rainbow.