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The American Novel
This book is meant to serve as a chapter in the history of the American imagination.
Preface
Carl
Van Doren

The American Novel

Carl Van Doren

This historical treatment of the development of the “Great American Novel” expands upon Van Doren’s chapters on fiction in the Cambridge History of American Literature.

Contents

TO IRITA VAN DOREN
NEW YORK: MACMILLAN, 1921
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2000

Ch. 1. The Beginnings of Fiction
     § 1. Arguments and Experiments
§ 2. The Three Matters of American Romance

Ch. 2. James Fenimore Cooper

Ch. 3. Romances of Adventure
     § 1. Materials and Men
§ 2. Herman Melville

Ch. 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ch. 5. Blood and Tears

Ch. 6. Howells and Realism
     § 1. New Frontiers and Old Settlements
§ 2. William Dean Howells

Ch. 7. Mark Twain

Ch. 8. Henry James

Ch. 9. The Eighties and Their Kin
     § 1. Varied Types
§ 2. Francis Marion Crawford

Ch. 10. Reaction and Progress
     § 1. Toward the Right: Rococo Romance
§ 2. Toward the Left: Naturalism

Bibliographical Notes