Literary Studies
Maximalism and US literary history
Searching for the Great American Novel
The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell
by James Ley •
The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell
Harvard University Press (Inbooks), $59.95 hb, 579 pp
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Well, it’s Moby-Dick, obviously. Except when it’s Huckleberry Finn or Absalom, Absalom! or Invisible Man or Gravity’s Rainbow. The Great Gatsby will often do, if one is pressed for time.
The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell
Harvard University Press (Inbooks), $59.95 hb, 579 pp
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