The American Novel and Its Tradition - Couverture rigide

Chase, Richard Volney

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 087752209X ISBN 13 : 9780877522096

Editeur : Gordian Press Inc, 1957

Synopsis

This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. No dust jacket.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Since the 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 the escapism, fantasy, and sentimentality often associated with it. Through romance, these writers mirror the extremes of American culture—the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or the pastoral idyll inspired by the American wilderness.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gordian Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1957
• ISBN 10: 087752209X
• ISBN 13: 9780877522096
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 266