The dream of the great American novel

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1. Verfasser:	Buell, Lawrence (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, Massachusetts The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2014
Schlagworte:	1800 - 1999 Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte 1850-2010 American fiction Literature Literature and society National characteristics, American, in literature HISTORY / United States / General Geschichte Literatur American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century Roman USA
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Inhaltsangabe:

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
Toni 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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