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082 0 4 _a813.009
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBuell, Lawrence
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Dream of the Great American Novel /
_cLawrence Buell.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (584 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tPART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM --
_t1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline --
_t2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes --
_tPART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING --
_t3. The Reluctant Master Text --
_tPART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA --
_tIntroduction --
_t4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism --
_t5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow --
_t6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond --
_tPART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES --
_tIntroduction --
_t7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths --
_t8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others --
_t9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South --
_t10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury --
_tPART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES --
_tIntroduction --
_t11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel --
_t12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? --
_t13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThe 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y19th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican fiction
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726321
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