TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buell,Lawrence
TI  - The dream of the great American novel
SN  - 9780674051157 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS 377 B928d 2014
U1  - 813.009 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 20th century
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Ficción estadounidense
KW  - Siglo XIX
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Características nacionales, American en la literatura
KW  - Literatura y sociedad
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Birth, heyday, and seeming decline -- Reborn from the critical ashes -- The reluctant master text : the making and remakings of Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Success" stories from Benjamin Franklin to the dawn of modernism -- Belated ascendancy : Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow -- Up-from stories in hyphenated America : Ellison, Roth, and beyond -- Uncle Tom's cabin and its aftermaths -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and its others -- Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Toni Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Melville's Moby-Dick : from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of early twentieth century breakdown : Dos Passos's U.S.A. or Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath? -- Late twentieth-century maximalism : Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow and its rainbow
N2  - Taking in the full sweep of national fiction, this title 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
ER  -