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The American novel and its tradition, Richard Chase

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The American novel and its tradition, Richard Chase

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The American novel and its tradition

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

7600232

Responsibility statement

Richard Chase

Series statement

Doubleday anchor books, A116A Doubleday Anchor original

Table Of Contents

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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