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CONTENTS
Preface v
I. Beginnings of Fiction
1. Arguments and Experiments 3
2. Three Matters of American Romance 14
II. James Fenimore Cooper 21
III. Romances of Adventure 43
IV. Nathaniel Hawthorne 58
V. Herman Melville 84
VI. Blood and Tears 103
VII. Howells and Realism
1. New Frontiers and Old Settlements 115
2. William Dean Howells 120
VIII. Mark Twain 137
IX. Henry James 163
X. Types of Fiction 190
XI. Local and Historical
1. Local Color 203
2. Romantic History 215
XII. Emergence of Naturalism 225
XIII. Theodore Dreiser 245
XIV. Tradition and Transition
1. Stream of Fiction 260
2. Edith Wharton 273
XV. Willa Cather 281
XVI. Revolt from the Village 294
XVII. Sinclair Lewis 303
XVIII. Romance, Comedy, Satire
1. James Branch Cabell 315
2. Lively Decade 322
XIX New Realisms
1. Post-War 334
2. Thomas Wolfe 343
XX Revisions 349
Bibliography 36 7
Index 383

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Publication Information: Book Title: The American Novel, 1789-1939. Contributors: Carl Van Doren - author. Publisher: Macmillan. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1940. Page Number: vii.
    
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