The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.

Author/creator Buell, Lawrence
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxii, 567 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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.

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 narrative 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-537) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013032745
ISBN9780674051157 (cloth)

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