TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buell,Lawrence
TI  - The Dream of the Great American Novel
SN  - 9780674051157
AV  - PS377 .B84 2014
U1  - 813.009 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; PART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM --; 1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline --; 2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes --; PART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING --; 3. The Reluctant Master Text --; PART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA --; Introduction --; 4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism --; 5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow --; 6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond --; PART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES --; Introduction --; 7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths --; 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others --; 9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South --; 10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury --; PART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES --; Introduction --; 11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel --; 12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? --; 13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under construction
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726321
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674726321
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