The Form of American Romance / Edgar A. Dryden.
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 reading...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 1988. ©1988. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 1988 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 249 p. ) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [223]-241. |
| ISBN: | 1421431122 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Edgar A. Dryden. |