The American Novel and its Tradition.
1959; Duke University Press; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2922656
ISSN1527-2117
AutoresRobert E. Spiller, Richard Chase,
Tópico(s)American Literature and Culture
ResumoSince earliest days, writes Richard Chase in this classic study, the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance. In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Frank Norris, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, Chase identifies and traces this tradition through two centuries of American literature. The best novelists, he argues, have found uses for romance beyond escapism, fantasy, and sentimentality often associated with it. Through romance, these writers mirror extremes of American culture-the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or pastoral idyll inspired by American wilderness.
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