LEADER 03946nam 2200721 450 001 9910815567703321 005 20211008015423.0 010 $a0-674-72748-7 010 $a0-674-72632-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674726321 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092395 035 $a(EBL)3301419 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001130355 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11976109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130355 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11086225 035 $a(PQKB)11694559 035 $a(DE-B1597)213446 035 $a(OCoLC)1002274090 035 $a(OCoLC)1004874533 035 $a(OCoLC)1011475437 035 $a(OCoLC)871257583 035 $a(OCoLC)900718980 035 $a(OCoLC)999378000 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726321 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301419 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10844281 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7186184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301419 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092395 100 $a20140319h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe dream of the great American novel /$fLawrence Buell 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon, England :$cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (584 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-05115-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$tPART ONE THE UNKILLABLE DREAM --$t1. Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline --$t2. Reborn from the Critical Ashes --$tPART TWO. SCRIPT ONE: MADE CLASSIC BY RETELLING --$t3. The Reluctant Master Text --$tPART THREE. SCRIPT TWO: ASPIRATION IN AMERICA --$tIntroduction --$t4. "Success" Stories from Franklin to the Dawn of Modernism --$t5. Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser to Wright and Bellow --$t6. Up- From Narrative in Hyphenated America: Ellison, Roth, and Beyond --$tPART FOUR. SCRIPT THREE: ROMANCING THE DIVIDES --$tIntroduction --$t7. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Its Aftermaths --$t8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others --$t9. Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, and Literary Interracialism North and South --$t10. Morrison's Beloved as Culmination and Augury --$tPART FIVE. SCRIPT FOUR: IMPROBABLE COMMUNITIES --$tIntroduction --$t11. Moby- Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel --$t12. The Great American Novel of Twentieth- Century Breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.- or Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath? --$t13. Late Twentieth- Century Maximalism: Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow- and Its Rainbow --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aThe first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under construction. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a813.009 700 $aBuell$b Lawrence$0592478 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815567703321 996 $aThe dream of the great American novel$93943671 997 $aUNINA