The Form of American Romance
Language: English
Published by The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1988
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- Title
- The Form of American Romance
- Author
- Dryden Edgar A. (Inscribed)
- Publisher
- The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
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- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801836751
- ISBN 13
- 9780801836756
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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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About the Author
Edgar A. Dryden is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Arizona. He also taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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