TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buell,Lawrence
TI  - The dream of the great American novel
SN  - 9780674051157
AV  - PS377 .B84 2014
U1  - 813.009 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - In literature
N1  - 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
ER  -