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Author:

Buell, Lawrence, author.

Title:

The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Publisher:

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 567 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-537) and index.

Contents:

Part One. The unkillable Dream. Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- Part Two. Script one: made classic by retelling. The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- Part three. Script two: aspiration in America. "Success" stories from Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from narrative to hyphenated America : Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Part Four. Script three: romancing the divides. 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 -- Part Five. Script four: improbable communities. 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.

ISBN:

9780674659896
0674659899

OCLC:

(OCoLC)926061511

Locations:

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)