Dream of the Great American Novel

Name: Dream of the Great American Novel
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ISBN: 9780674051157

ISBN-10: 0674051157

ISBN-13: 9780674051157

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lawrence Buell

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The idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first in many years to take in the whole sweep of national fiction, Lawrence Buell reanimates this supposedly antiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to the dynamics of national literature and national identity itself.The dream of the G.A.N., as Henry James nicknamed it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-depth readings of selected contenders from the 1850s onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels, Buell delineates four "scripts" for…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/10/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 584
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.