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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Gatsby : the cultural history of the great American novel / by Batchelor, Bob

Table of Contents: “…Gatsby lives: the enduring legacy of the great American novel. 10. Is romance timeless? -- 11. A hope for reading and the quest for the great American novel -- 12. …”
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Brainwave: memory.

“…Committing the great American novel to memory :…”
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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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Ideas crossing the Atlantic : theories, normative conceptions, and cultural images /

Table of Contents: “…Henryk Sienkiewicz and the Great American Novel /…”
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A journey through American literature / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- Travels -- Autobiography -- Narrative voice and the short story -- Poetry -- The drama of the everyday -- The great American novel -- Endings.…”
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Whoever it was that brought me here will have to take me home / by Joseph, Martyn

Table of Contents: “…Love is -- Where the angels sleep -- Wake me up -- Every little sign -- This being woman -- Strange kind of friend -- Walk down the mountain -- Just like the man said -- Whoever it was that brought me here will have to take me home -- The great American novel -- The good in me is dead.…”
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The sketch, the tale, and the beginnings of American literature / by Fash, Lydia G., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…The Short Fiction Skeleton of the Great American Novel.…”
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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 doubling : those influential writers that shape our contemporary perceptions of identity and consciousness in the new millennium /

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, and the Pursuit of the Great American Novel -- An Interview with Diana Sheets: Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, Two Leaders of "New Journalism" or Writers Striving to Create the "Great American Novel"? …”
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First books : the printed word and cultural formation in early Alabama / by Beidler, Philip D.

Table of Contents: “…Satire in the territories: literature and the art of political payback in an early Alabama classic -- First book: Henry Hitchcock's Alabama justice of the peace -- "The first production of the kind, in the South": a backwoods literary incognito and his attempt at the great American novel -- Belles lettres in a new country -- Antebellum Alabama history in the planter style: the example of Albert J. …”
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Fictional traces. receptions of the ancient novel /

Table of Contents: “…'His Career as Trimalchio': Petronian Characterand Narrative in Fitzgerald's Great American NovelPetronius and the Contemporary Novel: Between New Picaresque and Queer Aesthetics; Psyche, Callirhoë and Operatic Heroines Derived from Ancient Novels; Le dieu Pan fait pan pan pan de son pied de chèvre: Daphnis and Chloe on the stage at the end of the nineteenth century; Widows on the operatic stage: The 'Ephesian Matron' as a dramatic character in wdtwentieth-century German musical theatre (esp. 1928-1952); Apuleius On the Radio: Louis MacNeice's BBC Dramatisations; Abstracts; Contributors.…”
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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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The bear tree and other stories from Cazenovia's history / by Barnes, Erica, Emerson, Jason, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Hough helped create the Smithsonian Institution -- Elizabeth Smith Miller, the original "bloomer" -- The story of William Madge, Cazenovian who escaped from rebel prison during the Civil War -- The men behind the famous Cazenovia G.A.R. photograph -- Former Cazenovia resident, seminary president had historic connections to Abraham Lincoln -- Lucia Zora Card, "the bravest woman in the world" -- When President Cleveland came to Cazenovia -- The Cazenovia mummy, Robert Hubbard, and generations of interest -- Theodore Roosevelt's 1900 campaign whistle stop in Cazenovia -- A family of patriots : the Kent brothers and their World War I service -- "Nothing further remains but our duty" : Cecil Donovan's letters from the Western Front -- Circus man Jim Fitch a colorful Cazenovia character -- One of the great American novels written by a Cazenovia high school teacher.…”
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The bear tree and other stories from Cazenovia's history / by Barnes, Erica, Emerson, Jason, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Hough helped create the Smithsonian Institution -- Elizabeth Smith Miller, the original "bloomer" -- The story of William Madge, Cazenovian who escaped from rebel prison during the Civil War -- The men behind the famous Cazenovia G.A.R. photograph -- Former Cazenovia resident, seminary president had historic connections to Abraham Lincoln -- Lucia Zora Card, "the bravest woman in the world" -- When President Cleveland came to Cazenovia -- The Cazenovia mummy, Robert Hubbard, and generations of interest -- Theodore Roosevelt's 1900 campaign whistle stop in Cazenovia -- A family of patriots : the Kent brothers and their World War I service -- "Nothing further remains but our duty" : Cecil Donovan's letters from the Western Front -- Circus man Jim Fitch a colorful Cazenovia character -- One of the great American novels written by a Cazenovia high school teacher.…”
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Raintree County : --which had no boundaries in time and space, where lurked musical and strange names and mythical and lost peoples, and which was itself only a name musical and st... by Lockridge, Ross, 1914-1948

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Carnival / by Bredle, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Driving and ShavingThe Killing; You Should Have Thought About What I was Willing to Do in Order to Get the Job Done; Better Things; The Great American Novel; The Death March; Ginger; A Sip of Inspiration; Indian Ocean; July 18; The Almond Tree; Mustache Fire; Robert Goulet; From "Home Exile" by Juphouto Bayasi Translated from the Ül-Beyazey by Pablo Rockefeller; From "Sky Fire" by Juphouto Bayasi Translated from the Ül-Beyazey by Pablo Rockefeller; Stepfather Mohawk; Pleasant Surprise; Force Majeure; Another Surprise; The Tiger; Falling from a Bridge.…”
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American icon : Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby in critical and cultural context / by Beuka, Robert, 1965-

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John Fante's Ask the dust : a joining of voices and views /

Table of Contents: “…New approaches to John Fante's Ask the dust. from the particular to the universal : Vittorini's Italian adaptation of Ask the dust / Valerio Ferme -- When spirituality ebbs and flows : religion and diasporic alienation in Ask the dust / Suzanne Manizza Roszak -- "Sad flower in the sand" : Camilla Lopez and the erasure of memory in Ask the dust / Meagan Meylor -- "A Ramona in reverse" : writing the madness of the Spanish past in Ask the dust / Daniel Gardner -- Sibling arts : Ask the dust in dance, music, the graphic novel, and French. dancing with the dust : translating Ask the dust to the stage / J'aime Morrison -- Ask the lyrics : John Fante in music / Chiara Mazzucchelli -- Watch out or you'll end up in my novel : the lost world of Ask the dust / Robert Guffey -- Don't ask the French / Philippe Garnier -- Ask the dust and its effects : readers and writers respond. amid the dust / Miriam Amico -- The passion that became a festival / Giovanna DiLello -- I had Bandini : reading Ask the dust in prison / Joel Williams -- Writing in the dust / Alan Rifkin -- How Hitler nearly destroyed the great American novel / Ryan Holiday -- Ask the dust and its due : two filmmakers and bukowski pay tribute. interview with Robert Towne / Nathan Rabin -- Letters from Los Angeles / Jan Louter -- "My dear Bukowski," "Hello John Fante" : preface to Ask the dust / John Fante and Charles Bukowski -- The attic, the archive, and beyond. from family to institutional memory : a conversation with Stephen Cooper / Teresa Fiore -- Prelude to "Prologue to Ask the dust" / Stephen Cooper -- Goodbye, Bunker Hill / John Fante -- The road to John Fante's Los Angeles / Stephen Cooper.…”
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