The dream of the great American novel / by Buell, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…, Mitchell's Gone with the wind, and literary interracialism North and South -- Morrison's Beloved as culmination and augury -- Fatalisms of the multitude -- Melville's Moby-Dick: from oblivion to great American novel -- The great American novel of twentieth-century breakdown: Dos Passos's U.S.A.…”
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American literature in transition, 1970-1980 /

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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts /

Table of Contents: “…"A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel /…”

Ideas crossing the Atlantic : theories, normative conceptions, and cultural images /

Table of Contents: “…Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Great American Novel /…”
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Ideas crossing the Atlantic : theories, normative conceptions, and cultural images /

Table of Contents: “…Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Great American Novel /…”
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Legal realisms : the American novel under reconstruction / by Holbo, Christine

Table of Contents: “…The Novel in the Era of Plessy -- Perfect Knowledge : Sympathetic Realism between the Rational and the Real -- Imperfect Knowledge : William Dean Howells, Perspectival Realism and Social Politics -- A Double-Barreled Novel : Huckleberry Finn and the Great American Novel as Perspectival Realism.…”

Guilty pleasures : popular novels and American audiences in the long nineteenth century / by McIntosh, Hugh, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the not-so-great American novel -- Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere -- Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief -- British authorship, American advertising -- Questionable Americans abroad -- Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin -- Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.…”

Guilty Pleasures : Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century / by McIntosh, Hugh, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the not-so-great American novel -- Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere -- Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief -- British authorship, American advertising -- Questionable Americans abroad -- Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin -- Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.…”
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Reading the American novel 1865-1914 / by Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Introduction -- Toward the ₃Great American Novel₄ -- Of Realism and Reality -- Dramas of the Broken Teacup -- The Nature of Naturalism -- Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance -- Frank Norris -- The Rocking Horse Winners -- Subjective Realism -- Impressions of War -- Sense and Sensibility -- Domestic Feminism -- ₃All the Happy Endings₄ -- Vulgarians at the Gate -- Tea-Table as Jungle -- Economies of Pain -- The ₃Gilded Age₄ -- What Is An American? …”
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The rise of the American comics artist : creators and contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Ball -- Questions of "contemporary women's comics" / Paul Williams -- Theorizing sexuality in comics / Joe Sutliff Sanders -- Feminine Latin/o American identities on the American alternative landscape : from the women of Love and rockets to La perdida / Ana Merino -- Making comics respectable : how Maus helped redefine a medium / Ian Gordon -- "A purely American tale" : the tragedy of racism and Jimmy Corrigan : the smartest kid on earth as great American novel / Paul Williams -- "That mouse's shadow" : the canonization of Spiegelman's Maus / Andrew Loman.…”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby ; All the sad young men ; & other writings, 1920-1926 / by Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940

Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man /

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Ralph Ellison and the raft of hope : a political companion to Invisible man /

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