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xxiii, 805 pages 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-772) Foundations of American fiction -- Charles Brockden Brown and the establishment of romance -- Washington Irving and other pioneers -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Edgar Allan Poe and the establishment of the short story -- Development of idealistic romance -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, the romance of the moral life -- Herman Melville and the exotic romance -- Transition to realism -- Fiction of fantasy -- Bret Harte and the fiction of moral contrast -- Mark Twain and the romance of youth -- William Dean Howells and the establishment of realism -- Henry James and the fiction of international relations -- Weir Mitchell, pioneer and patrician -- Place and race in American fiction -- Joel Chandler Harris and the fiction of folklore -- Francis Marion Crawford and the cosmopolitan novel -- Urbane Note in American fiction -- Development of realism -- James Lane Allen and the novel of the spirit -- Romance of history and politics -- LaFacadio Hearn and the later exotic romance -- Journalists -- Edith Wharton -- Anne Douglas Sedgwick -- Booth Tarkington and the later romance -- Critics and satirists--the liberals -- Critics an

Author

Arthur Hobson Quinn

Publisher

D. Appleton-Century company, incorporated

Published

1936

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities