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368 pages ; 21 cm |
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1. Fable as reality: Predilections: romance, folklore, myth -- Longbows, wonders, and witchcrafts -- The American hero: his masquerade -- Prefigurations: "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" -- 2. Hawthorne: Folklore and the moral picturesque -- Yankee bumpkin and scapegoat king -- "The Maypole of Merry Mount" and the folklore of love -- Just married! -in the village of witches -- Hester's double providence: The scarlet letter and the green -- Paradise regained at Maule's well -- The Blithedale romance: May-day in a cold Arcadia -- 3. Melville: Loomings -- Myth, magic, and metaphor in Moby-Dick -- The confidence-man: his masquerade -- 4. Mark Twain: Black magic -and white -in Huckleberry Finn -- Huckleberry Finn: his masquerade -- Retrospect: Reality as fable. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and folklore -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Folklore.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Folklore.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Knowledge -- Folklore.
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Fables, American -- History and criticism.
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Oral tradition -- United States.
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Folklore in literature.
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Literary form.
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