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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950. American novel, 1789-1939. New York, Macmillan Co., 1940 (OCoLC)570020602 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Carl Van Doren |
| OCLC Number: | 269681 |
| Description: | vii, 406 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Carl Van Doren. |
Abstract:
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.
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