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 narrative 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
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.
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The dream of the great American novel by Lawrence Buell. ISBN 9780674051157. Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
