The dream of the great American novel /
Buell, Lawrence,
The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014.] - 1 online resource (xii, 567 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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 -- 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.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
United States--In literature.
Electronic Books.
PS377
The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014.] - 1 online resource (xii, 567 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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 -- 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.
9780674726321 0674726324
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and society--History--United States--20th century.
United States--In literature.
Electronic Books.
PS377