| Description |
xxiv, 242 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tony Tanner on American means of writing and means of writing America -- Lustres and condiments : Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays -- "a summer in the country" : Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance -- "Nothing but cakes and ale" : Herman Melville's White-jacket -- "All interweavingly working together" : Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- Melville's counterfeit detector : The confidence-man -- Henry James : "The story in it" and the story without it -- Henry James's "saddest story" : The other house -- Henry James and Shakespeare -- "Feelings of middle life" : William Dean Howells's Indian summer -- "The story of the moon that never rose" : F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- Don DeLillo and "the American mystery" : Underworld -- "The rubbish-tip for subjunctive hopes" : Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0521783747 (pbk.) |
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0521780039 (hdbk.) |
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