American Fiction: The Intellectual Background

306 pp. A study of the American novel as a continuation of the European tradition in fiction, studying the work of several prominent authors. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; I. The Poetic Inception; II. Poe and the Romantic Experiment; III. Politics and Pastoral in Cooper; IV. The Tragic Phase: Melville and Hawthorne; V. Twain as Satirist; VI. Edith Wharton and the Realists; VII. Modern American Fiction and Its Inheritance; Appendix A-B; Index.