Author

Publication

2005 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

66,750 words, Guess

Page Count

267 pages

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and 1 more
  • LibraryThing3967727

Classifications

  • DDC813/.309
  • LCCPS368 .A73 2005

Description

"In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible and what it accomplished. His work also delves into a deep paradox that has haunted American literature: our nation's great works of literary narrative place themselves at a tense distance from our national life."--Jacket.

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