MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02141cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2013032745
003 DLC
005 20150130083215.0
008 130910s2014 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013032745
020 $a9780674051157 (cloth)
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050 00 $aPS377$b.B84 2014
082 00 $a813.009$223
100 1 $aBuell, Lawrence.
245 14 $aThe dream of the great American novel /$cLawrence Buell.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,$c2014.
300 $axii, 567 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 467-537) and index.
505 0 $aBirth, 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIn literature.