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American Fiction

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter I
Contents V
Acknowledgements VII
Chapter One. The Poetic Inception 1
Chapter Two. Poe and the Romantic Experiment 53
Chapter Three. Politics and Pastoral in Cooper 97
Chapter Four. The Tragic Phase: Melville and Hawthorne 141
Chapter Five. Twain as Satirist 192
Chapter Six. Edith Wharton and the Realists 236
Chapter Seven. Modern American Fiction and its Inheritance 265
Appendix A 288
Appendix B 294
Index 301

https://doi.org/10.7312/maxw90250-toc

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter I
Contents V
Acknowledgements VII
Chapter One. The Poetic Inception 1
Chapter Two. Poe and the Romantic Experiment 53
Chapter Three. Politics and Pastoral in Cooper 97
Chapter Four. The Tragic Phase: Melville and Hawthorne 141
Chapter Five. Twain as Satirist 192
Chapter Six. Edith Wharton and the Realists 236
Chapter Seven. Modern American Fiction and its Inheritance 265
Appendix A 288
Appendix B 294
Index 301

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