TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bewley,Marius
TI  - The Eccentric Design: Form in the Classic American Novel 
SN  - 9780231933629
PY  - 1963///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. The Question of Form --; II. A Sketch for an Historical Background --; III. Fenimore Cooper and the Economic Age --; IV. Form in Fenimore Cooper's Novels --; V. Symbolism and Subject Matter --; VI. Hawthorne's Short Stories --; VII. Hawthorne's Novels --; VIII. Melville --; IX. Henry James and 'Life' --; X. Henry James and the Economic Age --; XI. Scott Fitzgerald and the Collapse of the American Dream --; XII. The Americanness of the American Novel --; Appendix A. Hamilton's Financial Reforms --; Appendix B. The Genteel Tradition --; Notes; restricted access
N2  - A review of the form and style traditions of the American novel. Includes historical context and analysis of a sampling of classic American novelists. 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/bewl93362
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