The Dream of the Great American Novel Lawrence Buell
Publisher: Harvard

The Dream of the Great American Novel: Amazon.de: Lawrence Buell: Fremdsprachige Bücher. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel. DeForest in 1868) names Uncle Tom's Cabin as the closest approximation yet. This article is about the Great American Novel as a concept. The first critical call on record for “the great American novel” (by novelist John W. Review: The Dream of the Great American Novel Lawrence Buell , The Dream of the Great American Novel . For other uses " The Unkillable Dream of the Great American Novel: Moby-Dick as Test Case". This essay is an interim report on a long-term study of the chimera of the great American novel—the dream either of writing it or seeing it written. The Dream of the Great American Novel Miraculoasly Survives. (Harvard University Press) The idea of “the great American novel” emerged shortly after the Civil War, and still holds sway today.