{"product_id":"the-american-novel-and-its-tradition-9780801823039","title":"The American Novel and Its Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Since the earliest days,\" writes Richard Chase in this classic study, \"the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance.\" In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Frank Norris, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, Chase identifies and traces this tradition through two centuries of American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best novelists, he argues, have found uses for romance beyond the escapism, fantasy, and sentimentality often associated with it. Through romance, these writers mirror the extremes of American culture--the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or the pastoral idyll inspired by the American wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Chase, author of \u003ci\u003eQuest for Myth, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman Reconsidered, \u003c\/i\u003e and other books, was a member of the English department faculty at Columbia University until his death in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872817254674,"sku":"9780801823039","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5a3c5ad-eb12-4f53-86ac-3808e0a4a3d5.jpg?v=1737911739","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-american-novel-and-its-tradition-9780801823039","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}