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The rise of the American novel.
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The rise of the American novel.

Author: Alexander Cowie
Publisher: New York, American Book Co. [1948]
Series: American literature series
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Alexander Cowie
OCLC Number: 268679
Description: xii, 877 p. 23 cm.
Contents: 1. At the beginning -- 2. Early satire and realism -- 3. Vaulting ambition: Brockden Brown and others -- 4. James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- 5. Contemporaries and immediate followers of Cooper I -- 6. Contemporaries and immediate followers of Cooper II -- 7. The mixed thirties -- 8. Nathaniel Hawthorne -- 9. Herman Melville -- 10. The domestic sentimentalists and other popular writers -- 11. Experiment and tradition -- 12. Civil War and Reconstruction -- 13. Local-color, frontier, and regional fiction -- 14. Mark Twain -- 15. William Dean Howells -- 16. Henry James -- 17. New directions (1890-1940).
Series Title: American literature series

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