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050 0 0 _aPS377
_b.B84 2014
082 0 0 _a813.009
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100 1 _aBuell, Lawrence.
245 1 4 _aThe dream of the great American novel /
_cLawrence Buell.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axii, 567 pages ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aBirth, 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.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xIn literature.
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