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Cavalcade of the American Novel: From the Birth of the Nation to the Middle of the Twentieth Century

Book by Edward Wagenknecht; Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1952

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American Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...George A. Dunlap, The City in the American Novel, 1789-1900 U. of Penn...pioneering account of The Early American Novel is Lillie D. Loshe ColUP, 1907...Ellis, "The Author of the First American Novel," AL, IV 1932- 1933 , 365...
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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

Book by Bernard W. Bell; University of Massachusetts Press, 1989

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African Americans In Literature, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...novel, however, the Afro-American novel has its roots in the...literary traditions of Afro-American culture. It is one of the...literary forms that black Americans have borrowed from western...capitalist, patriarchal American social arena. The Afro- American novel, in other words, is not...nineteenth-century romances and novels of Brown, Delany, Harper...
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The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel

Book by Raymond Leslie Williams; University of Texas Press, 2005

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Spanish American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

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...with the Boom of the Spanish American novel. Part V deals with the moment...twentieth-century Spanish American novel; I offer brief analyses of specific novels and a critical overview of the Spanish American novel published from 1900 to 1999...
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel

Book by Darryl Dickson-Carr; University of Missouri Press, 2001

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African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Political Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Political Satire, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Satire, American--History And Criticism

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...of the same potential. The novels greater length, however...representation of the real. The novels attempt to portray all the...fecund genre. 4. The satirical novel, then, poses an extra opportunity...idea long discussed in African American intellectual discourse racial...twentieth-century satirical novels. As I developed this project...
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The American Novel, 1789-1939

Book by Carl Van Doren; Macmillan, 1940

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American Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...M. A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with American Country Life 1890 . A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with American...1891 . A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing with the...Creating the Modern American Novel 1935 . Hazard L. L. The Frontier...

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Journal Articles on: american novel

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The Sentiment of the Christian Serial Novel: The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride and the AME Christian Recorder

Journal article by Tomeiko Ashford Carter; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Influence

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...particularly ripe for African American achievement, and she...time when few African Americans were privileged to...capable of formulating novel concepts. By doing...belief that African Americans are heirs to a legacy...Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom that African Americans own efforts to educate...
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Longings and Renunciations: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Early Twentieth Century Jewish American Novels

Journal article by Adam Sol; American Jewish History, Vol. 89, 2001

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American Jews--Social aspects, Authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Identity--Portrayals, Intermarriage--Social aspects, Jews, American--Social aspects, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)--Social aspects, Plots--Social aspects, Writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...latest of the three novels discussed here, Arrogant...a new kind of Jewish American ethnicity which Yezierskas...the heroine of the novel, chooses between three...Edna Ferber, in her novel Fanny Herself, also...great popularity with novels like Giant and Show...She was also the first American Jew to win the Pulitzer...Literature, for her novel So Big. Ferbers interest...
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Not Entirely Strange, but Not Entirely Friendly Either: Images of Jews in African American Passing Novels through the Harlem Renaissance

Journal article by Adam Meyer; African American Review, Vol. 38, 2004

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Novels

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...The tradition of the passing novel in African American literature...tradition of the anti-passing novel. What these characters discover...words, the African American novel of passing builds it up again...The best-known African American passing novels often refer to Jews or even...allusions illustrate that African Americans are not the only people for...
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The Christian Recorder, Broken Families, and Educated Nations in Julia C. Collins's Civil War Novel the Curse of Caste

Journal article by P. Gabrielle Foreman; African American Review, Vol. 40, 2006

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African American literature--Criticism and interpretation, African American literature--Works, African American women authors--Criticism and interpretation, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African American women writers--Works, American Reconstruction, 1865-1877--Portrayals, American literature--African American authors, American literature--Criticism and interpretation, American literature--Works, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--Criticism and interpretation, Christian Recorder (Periodical)--History, Collins, Julia C.--Criticism and interpretation, Collins, Julia C.--Influence, Collins, Julia C.--Works, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Authorship, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, United States Civil War, 1861-1865--Portrayals, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States history--Portrayals

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...essays and then the serialized novel Collins sent in week after...numerous readers" communicate the novels popularity as well as the reach...first--if not the first--novel by an African American woman to appear in print...Interestingly, the dynamics of the novels reintroduction mirror issues...
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Bernard W. Bell. the Contemporary African American Novel: Its Roots and Modern Literary Branches

Journal article by Robert Butler; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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Books--Book reviews, The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Roots and Modern Literary Branches (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Contemporary African American Novel: Its Roots...Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition...African American novels are formally rooted...contemporary African American novel stressing both...ordinary black Americans." Such voices...identity with African American middle class satirical...the detective novels of Walter Mosely...Contemporary African Novel: Its Folk Roots...

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Magazine Articles on: american novel

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Subaquatic Homesick Blues: Is Melville's Moby-Dick the Ultimate American Novel? in an Exclusive Essay, Greil Marcus Argues That Even Today, It Haunts a Nation's Thoughts and Dreams

Magazine article by Greil Marcus; New Statesman, Vol. 138, September 28, 2009

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American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Melville, Herman--Works, Moby Dick (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works

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...Is Melvilles Moby-Dick the Ultimate American Novel? in an Exclusive Essay, Greil Marcus Argues...White Whale" to a joint meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, riding the waves...
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Queen Calafia's Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel

Magazine article by Andrew Rolle; California History, Vol. 84, Fall 2007

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Books--Book reviews, Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 (Book)--Book reviews, Queen Calafia's Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Paradise: California and the Italian American Novel. by Andrew Rolle By Kenneth Scambray...CULTURE: ITALIAN JESUITS IN THE AMERICAN WEST, 1848-1919 By Gerald McKevitt...Verne, demonstrates how Italian-American authors achieved an emerging new...
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Filming the American Novel

Magazine article by Meredith Hindley; Humanities, Vol. 28, March 2007

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Bank accounts, Conferences, Motion pictures, Novels, Success

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Filming the American Novel by Meredith Hindley...supported documentary, Novel Reflections . . . The...film focuses on seven novels: Theodore Dreisers...how key scenes in the novels critique the American dream, the film also...
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The Supreme American Novelists: A Tribute to Saul Bellow, Fifty Years after He Published One of the Great Novels of All Time

Magazine article by Martin Amis; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 292, December 2003

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Saul Bellow: Novels, 1944-1953 (Book), THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH (Book)

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The Supreme American Novelists: A Tribute to Saul...Published One of the Great Novels of All Time. by Martin Amis SAUL BELLOW Novels 1944-1953 edited by James...Forster published his last novel, A Passage to India, in...to the political reality. American fiction was assuming its manifest...
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Coming Back to America: American Author Vestal McIntyre Found a Husband and a Home in the U.K., but His First Novel, Lake Overturn, Brings Him Back to the Idaho Countryside of His Childhood

Magazine article by William Georgiades; The Advocate, May 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Lake Overturm (Novel)--Book reviews

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Coming Back to America: American Author Vestal McIntyre Found...author of this Great American Novel--the exotically named Vestal...the publication of his first novel. In his writing McIntyre soars...like a good 19th-century novel. I love those Victorian novels with a lot of characters like...

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Newspaper Articles on: american novel

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A Los Angeles Lad; Lorne Jackson Finds an Unlikely Midland Inspiration for a Classic American Crime Writer's New Novel

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 7, 2010

Subjects:

Blood's A Rover (Novel), Ellroy, James

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Midland Inspiration for a Classic American Crime Writers New Novel. Byline: Lorne Jackson James...appropriated the title of his novel, Bloods A Rover, from a line...drug-addled, slang-sodden novels - first discovered the introspective...Thats a good title for a novel." I shouldnt be surprised...
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AMERICAN IN HIGHGATE BACK FROM THE DEAD; Audrey Niffenegger's Second Novel Is Even Weirder Than Her Blockbuster Debut; BOOK OF THE WEEK

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 1, 2009

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Books, Niffenegger, Audrey, The Time Traveler's Wife (Novel)

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AMERICAN IN HIGHGATE BACK FROM THE DEAD; Audrey Niffeneggers Second Novel Is Even Weirder Than Her Blockbuster...Audrey Niffeneggers debut novel, The Time Travelers Wife...was quite a slushily romantic novel - which doubtless helped it...
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Why This Is the Real Emma. Hollywood Big Earner Anne Hathaway Is about to Take the Lead as Emma Morley in a Big Screen Version of Cult Novel One Day. WM Editor Claire Rees Says Not Only Is the American Wrong for the Role of the Shy, Awkward Brit Heroine, but She Knows of an Up-and-Coming Actress Playing a Smaller Part in the Film Who Would Have Done the Wonderful Emma Justice ..

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 9, 2011

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Romola (Novel)

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...Screen Version of Cult Novel One Day. WM Editor Claire Rees Says Not Only Is the American Wrong for the Role of the...beautiful, too poised, too American have accompanied the release...argue its not the fact shes American. Hathaway actually looks...
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A Telling Thriller; French Film from American Novel Is Sophisticated Mystery

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 18, 2008

Subjects:

Canet, Guillaume, Motion pictures, Movies

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...Thriller; French Film from American Novel Is Sophisticated Mystery...tricky twists and turns of the American thriller with the subtlety...but based on the novel by American author Harlan Coben. The...the film was made, its the Americans turn. The film opens with...
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Great American Novel. by a Dubliner

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 13, 2009

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World Trade Center (New York, New York)

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Great American Novel. by a Dubliner. Byline...Petits walk as a fulcrum of his novel, though only a minor portion...people who populate McCanns novel are the usual characters from...over each other and, as the novel suggests, spin through their...sometimes in the future of the novels huge timespan. But he stands...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american novel

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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...is a God-centered novel, Feodor Dostoyevskys...haunted one. The American Novel American novels in the 19th cent...outer reality. The American Novel In the United States...is evident in such novels as The Great Gatsby...
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Dime Novels

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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DIME NOVELS swift-moving, thrilling novels, mainly about the American Revolution, the frontier period, and the Civil War...have sold 300,000 copies in the first year; similar novels sold by the thousands throughout the country and especially...
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Spanish American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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SPANISH AMERICAN LITERATURE the writings...first Spanish American novel, The Itching Parrot...Ricardo Palma . Several novels of the period reflect...were the psychological novels of Chiles Eduardo Barrios...Mallea , and the poetic novels of Mexicos Agustin Yanez...The state of Spanish American letters from the middle...especially in the novel and poetry. Both genres...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...Dunlap . The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy...by the first professional American novelist, Charles Brockden...coveted by every aspiring American writer and was first achieved...won attention by presenting American folk stories, and James Fenimore...Longfellow , who won the hearts of Americans with glib, moralizing verse...
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James, Henry , American Novelist and Critic

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...critic 1843 1916, American novelist and critic...of the psychological novel, James was an innovator...which several of his novels later appeared in serial...Hudson (1876), The American (1877), Daisy Miller...though often brash, Americans. In the novels of...perhaps his greatest novels, The Wings of the...technique of narrating a novel from the point of view...

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