The dream of the great American novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Buell, Lawrence (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	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.
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Table of Contents:

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.