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In this companion volume to his Minor British Novelists, a previous book in this series, Charles Alva Hoyt has brought together eight original, unpublished essays on eight American novelists: Charles Brockden Brown, John William De Forest, Charles Chesnutt, James Branch Cabell, John Dickson Carr, Nathanael West, Flannery O Connor, and Edward Lewis Wallant. The contributors are Kenneth Bernard, E. R. Hagemann, Robert Farnsworth, Frederick B. Millett,...
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This collection of essays offers a series of fresh and authoritative readings of most of the more important prose writers, and taken as a whole, a major reassessment of the American tradition in prose fiction. Each of the contributors has an enthusiastic and informed interest in the writer discussed and attempts both to characterize that writer's achievement and to offer a new perspective on his or her work. The book begins with a discussion of James...
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Introduces novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, and Saul Bellow.
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"This Companion examines the full range and vigor of the American novel. From the American exceptionalism of James Fenimore Cooper to the apocalyptic post-Americanism of Cormac McCarthy, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics chronicle the major aesthetic innovations that have shaped the American novel over the past two centuries. The essays evaluate the work, life and legacy of influential American novelists including Melville,...
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"Stafford introduces the rich interpretive possibilities in a contextual analysis of literature. He finds in Moby Dick, The Wings of the Dove, and Absalom, Absalom! three symbolic Americas linked through images of whiteness that are collectively prophetic. Three novels of the 1920s (by Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald) are linked by themes of innocence; three of the 1970s (by Bellows, Malamud, and Updike), by black-white pairs. His flexible method...
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