The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James

xi, 235 pp. "We have long needed a really good book on the American romance. Joel Porte's study provides us with such a critique, not by attempting an abstract definition or theory of the genre but by studying in marvelous detail individual works by five American romancers of the nineteenth century."--Albert Gelpi, Stanford University