| Edition |
[Second edition]. |
| Description |
316 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Romantics: J. Fenimore Cooper: Shaper of romance -- Romantic novel: Coda -- Apocalyptics: Charles Brockden Brown: Apocalyptic -- Poe: Terror of the soul -- Herman Melville: Seeker -- Bierce and Hearn: Poe Redivivus -- Fury of William Faulkner -- Temperamentists: Washington Irving: Revaluation -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Bystander -- Henry James: Life refracted by temperament -- Edityh Wharton and Willa Cather: James influence -- Ernest Hemingway and the "Fifth dimension" -- Education of Thomas Wolfe -- John Steinbeck: Realistic whimsy -- Realists: Howell's grasshopper -- Mark Twain: Realism and the frontier -- Naturalism Nascent: Crane and Norris -- Theodore Dreiser: Philosopher -- John Dos Passos: Literary collectivist -- Erskine Caldwell and Vardis Fisher: Nearly-Animal Kingdom -- James T. Farrell and the poverty of spirit. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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