The American novel, 1789-1939 /
Traces the beginnings of fiction in America and the earliest writer researched is Cooper and the latest is Wolfe. Commentaries on the novelists are presented.
| Основен автор: | Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Macmillan Co.,
1940.
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| Издание: | Rev. and enl. ed. |
| Предмети: | |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
American novel, 1789-1939. |
Съдържание:
- Beginnings of fiction:
- Arguments and experiments ;
- Three matters of American romance
- James Fenimore Cooper
- Romances of adventure
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Blood and tears
- Howells and realism:
- New frontiers and old settlements ;
- William Dean Howells
- Mark Twain
- Henry James
- Types of fiction
- Local and historical:
- Local color ;
- Romantic history
- Emergence of naturalism
- Theodore Dreiser
- Tradition and transition:
- Stream of fiction ;
- Edith Wharton
- Willa Cather
- Revolt from the village
- Sinclair Lewis
- Romance, comedy, satire:
- James Branch Cabell ;
- Lively decade
- New realisms:
- Post-war ;
- Thomas Wolfe
- Revisions.