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- The Form of American Romance
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- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit—or at least devalue—the importance of "romance" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- Abbreviations Used in the Text
- pp. xv-xvi
- Half Title 1
- p. xvii
- Conclusion
- pp. 211-221
- About the Author
- p. 251
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ISBN
9781421429984
Related ISBN(s)
9780801836756, 9781421431123, 9781421431130
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OCLC
1117482999
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2019-09-12
Language
English
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Yes
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CC-BY-NC-ND
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