Buell, Lawrence.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references 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 — 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.
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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