The dream of the great American novel / Lawrence Buell.

• 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.

Ämnesord

Nationalkaraktär i litteraturen  (sao)

Litteratur och samhälle  (sao)

Litteratursociologi  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

National characteristics, American, in literature.  (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

American fiction  -- 20th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- United States -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- United States -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Amerikanska romaner  -- historia (sao)

Literature and society  (LCSH)

Literature and society  (LCSH)

National characteristics in literature  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States  -- In literature. (LCSH)

1800-talet  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

Klassifikation

PS377 (LCC)

813.009 (DDC)