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008			130910s2014 mau b 001 0 eng
035			_a17881577
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020			_a9780674051157 (alk. paper)
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _erda
041			_aEng
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050	1	4	_aPS 377 _bB928d 2014
082	0	0	_a813.009
100	1		_aBuell, Lawrence.
245	1	4	_aThe dream of the great American novel / _cLawrence Buell.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bThe Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2014.
300			_a567 p.; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aBirth, 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.
520			_aTaking 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
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aAmerican fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aFicción estadounidense _ySiglo XIX _xHistoria y crítica.
650		4	_aFicción estadounidense _ySiglo XX _xHistoria y crítica.
650		4	_aCaracterísticas nacionales, American en la literatura.
650		4	_aLiteratura y sociedad _zEstados Unidos _xHistoria _ySiglo XIX.
650		4	_aLiteratura y sociedad _zEstados Unidos _xHistoria _ySiglo XX.
651		0	_aUnited States _xIn literature.
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963			_aJohn Donohue; phone: 518-664-9118; email: jdonohue28@aol.com; bc: anne_zarrella@harvard.edu
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