The American city novel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelfant, Blanche H., 1922-2013.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Cities and towns in literature.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Elizabeth Seton College (bookplate) (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]

Contents:

1. The city novel as a literary genre

2. The sociology of city life

3. Theodore Dreiser: the portrait novel

4. Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, and Thomas Wolfe

5. John Dos Passos: the synoptic novel

6. James T. Farrell: the ecological novel

7. Recent trends: 1943-1953.

Notes:

A study of the novels of city life, by Theodore Dreiser, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell, Nelson Algren, Betty Smith, Leonard Bishop, Willard Motley and others.

"Suggested background readings": p.265-267. "A selective list of city fiction": p. 269-289.

Index: p. 277-289.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Elizabeth Seton College of Westchester" on front flyleaf.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp "Elizabeth Seton College Library Yonkers, New York" on title page.

OCLC:

269567