American Fiction

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American Fiction

The Intellectual Background

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

Author: D. E. S. Maxwell

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Collection: Routledge Library Editions: The American Novel

Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 23rd October 2017

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 386 Kb

ISBN: 9781351579797


Originally published in 1963

The ‘Americanness’ of the American novel is as readily apparent as it is elusive of definition. It is the purpose of this study not to discover the reluctant formula, the comprehensive statement of national identity, but to examine the evidences of this identity in the work of some individual American writers. This study explores the works of many prominent American authors including Edgar Allan Poe, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.

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