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The Form of American Romance Edgar A. Dryden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dryden, Edgar A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literary form.
- Romanticism--United States.
- Romanticism.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 249 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in the Text
- 1. The Thematics of a Form: Waverley and American Romance
- 2. The Limits of Romance: A Reading of The Marble Faun
- 3. The Entangled Text: Pierre and the Romance of Reading
- 4. The Image in the Mirror: James's Portrait and the Economy of Romance
- 5. Faulkner and the Sepulcher of Romance: The Voices of Absalom, Absalom!
- 6. The Romance of the Word: John Barth's LETTERS
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. [223]-241.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-3675-1
- 1-4214-3112-2
- OCLC:
- 1117482999
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