The American novel and its tradition / Richard Chase.
Series: Doubleday Anchor original | Doubleday anchor books ; A116.Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1957Edition: [First edition]Description: 266 pages ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385093225
- 9780385093224
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation
- James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation
- Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810
- Cable, George Washington, 1844-1925
- Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
- Morrison, Toni
- Norris, Frank, 1870-1902
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
- Walker, Alice, 1944-
- Andrae, A
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Geschichte 1800-1955
- American fiction -- History and criticism
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Roman américain -- Histoire et critique
- American fiction
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
- Roman
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Fiction -- History and criticism
- USA
- 813.09
- PS371 .C5
- HR 1819
- HR 1800
- Also issued online.
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| PS 338 .P5 L6 Digests of great American plays : complete summaries of more than 100 plays from the beginnings to the present / | PS 351 .A2 Negro playwrights in the American theatre, 1925-1959 / | PS 351 .D63 Recent American drama / | PS 371 .C5 The American novel and its tradition / | PS 371 .F544 1966 Love and death in the American novel / | PS 374 .C53 H56 2012 Life in corporate America : 2041 / | PS 374 .F45 B83 1994 Engendering romance : women writers and the Hawthorne tradition, 1850-1990 / |
A Doubleday anchor original.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The broken circuit: A culture of contradictions -- Novel vs. romance -- The historical view -- James on the novel vs. the romance -- pt. 2. Brockden Brown's melodramas: Wieland -- Edgar Huntly -- A note on melodrama -- pt. 3. The significance of Cooper: Satanstoe -- The prairie -- pt. 4. Hawthorne and the limits of romance: The scarlet letter -- The A vs. the whale -- The Blithedale romance -- pt. 5. Melville and Moby-Dick: How Moby-Dick was written -- An epic romance -- The meaning of Moby-Dick -- A note on Billy Budd -- pt. 6. The lesson of the master: The portrait of a lady -- pt. 7. Mark Twain and the novel: Huckleberry Finn -- Pudd'nhead Wilson -- pt. 8. Three novels of manners: The great Gatsby -- Cable's Grandissimes -- The vacation of the Kelwyns -- pt. 9. Norris and naturalism: McTeague -- The octopus -- Norris historically viewed -- pt. 10. Faulkner, the great years: As I lay dying -- Light in August -- The sound and the fury -- Appendixes: I. Sanctuary vs. The turn of the screw -- II. Romance, the folk imagination, and myth criticism.
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