The dream of the great American novel:
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| adam_text | Contents
Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
The Plan of the Book
5
Just How American
Is the
GAN
Idea?
10
Why Now?
14
Part One. The Unkillable Dream
1.
Birth, Heyday, and Seeming Decline
23
The Birth of the Dream
24
Defining the Terms, Somewhat
28
Monumentalism and Mockery:
Dos Passos, Stein,
and Others
36
2.
Reborn from the Critical Ashes
46
Critical Professionalism and Paradigm Change
47
The Dream of the Great American Novel Miraculously Survives
Its Discreditation
52
Chaos Configured? Morrison and Updike as Great
American Novelists
60
Part Two. Script One: Made Classic by Retelling
3.
The Reluctant Master Text: The Making and Remakings
of Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter
71
Hawthorne as
a
Nonnational
Writer
74
Provincial Discontent: Hawthorne s Arts of Entrapment
76
Imagining Euro-Atlantic Diaspora: New England Derealized
84
Great American Novel Despite Itself: The Retellings
91
Part Three. Script Two: Aspiration in America
Introduction. American Dreamers in Context
105
4.
Success Stories from Franklin to the Dawn
of Modernism
109
American Dilemma: Uneven Development of Early Fictions
of Development
112
(Mis)Making Men: The Franklin Legend as Model and as Target
120
Women s Up-From Stories: Antebellum to Wharton
129
5.
Belated Ascendancy: Fitzgerald to Faulkner, Dreiser
to Wright and Bellow
139
Double Helix: An American Tragedy and The Great Gatsby
141
Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and Beyond: Americanization of
Observer-Hero Narrative
151
Dreiser, Wright Bellow, and the Ethnic Turn in
Up-From Narrative
162
6.
Up-From Narrative in Hyphenated America:
Ellison, Roth, and Beyond
175
Ellison s Invisible Man as Literary Event
176
Surpassing a Classic Benchmark: Invisible Man versus
Huckleberry Finn
182
Ellison to
Neo-slave
Narrative and Beyond
192
Roth s American Trilogy: American Pastoral as Success
Story Undone
198
The Way We Live Now?
208
Part Four. Script Three: Romancing the Divides
Introduction. Shifting Ratios, Dangerous Proximities
217
7.
Uncle Tom s Cabin and Its Aftermaths
226
The Greatest Book of Its Kind
228
Self- Revision
:
Stowe s Dred
240
North-South Divide Romances before and against Stowe
244
What Can Reform Fiction Do as Encore? Nineteenth-Century Novels
after Stowe
248
8.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Its Others
258
Comedy as a Substitute for Politics
259
Unperceived Rivals: Cable s The
Grandissimes,
Chesnutt s The Marrow
of Tradition
275
9.
Faulkner s Absalom, Absalom!, Mitchell s Gone with the Wind,
and Literary Interracialism North and South
286
Burning the House Down: Absalom, Absalom!
288
Recouping
Tara:
Gone with the Wind
300
Mirrors of Miscegenation for the Civil Rights Era and Beyond
308
10.
Morrison s Beloved as Culmination and Augury
317
Reinventing Tales White and Black
320
Re figuring the Divides
326
Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Imagination
330
Other Divides, Other
Diasporas
339
Part Five. Script Four: Improbable Communities
Introduction. Fatalisms of the Multitude
349
11.
Moby-Dick: From Oblivion to Great American Novel
358
First Lowering: Some Basic Terms of Engagement
360
Ahab, Ishmael, Melville
365
The Crew as Global Village and/or Democratic Microcosm
375
Moby-Dick as Cultural Icon
383
12.
The Great American Novel of Twentieth-Century
Breakdown:
Dos
Passos s U.S.A.
—
or Steinbeck s Grapes
of Wrath?
389
Novelistic Architecture: Collective Fiction in the Machine
Age
392
Democracy Derailed: The Fate of the Working Classes
399
Opinion Management
403
The Stein beck A Iternative
415
13.
Late Twentieth-Century
Maximálisra:
Pynchon s Gravity s
Rainbow
—
and Its Rainbow
423
Melville,
Dos
Passos, Pynchon
428
Plotlines
431
American Genesis of the Modern Rocket State
436
Mad Captains and Whale Rockets
439
Apocalypse When?
446
After Pynchon: DeLillo, Wallace,
Vollmann 452
Epilogue
461
Notes
467
Acknowledgments
539
Index
541
Є
idea
of the great American novel continues to
thrive almost as vigorously as in its nin eteenth-century
heyday, defying
1
5O years of attempts to dismiss it as
amateurish or obsolete. In this landmark book, the first
in many years to take in the whole sweep of national
fiction, Lawrence Bueil reanimates this supposedly an¬
tiquated idea, demonstrating that its history is a key to
the dynamics of national literature and national iden¬
tity itself.
The dream of the G. A.IsL, as Henry James nicknamed
it, crystallized soon after the Civil War. In fresh, in-
depth readings of selected contenders from the 185Os
onward in conversation with hundreds of other novels,
Buell delineates four scripts^ for G.A.NL candidates.
One; illustrated by The Scarlet Letter, is the adaptation of
the noveFs story line by later writers, often in ways that
are contrary to the original author s own design. Other
aspirants, including The Great Gatsby and Invisible
ЪЛап,
engage the American Dream of remarkable transforma¬
tion from humble origins. A third script, seen in LJncle
Tom s Cabin and Beloved, is the family saga that grapples
with racial and other social divisions. Finally, mega-
novels from Adoby-Dick to Gravity s Rainbow feature
assemblages of characters who dramatize
in microcosm the promise and pitfalls of
demo cracy.
The canvas of the great American novel
is in constant motion, reflecting revolu¬
tions in fictional fashion, the changing
face of authorship, and the inseparabil¬
ity of high culture from popular. As Buell
reveals, the elusive
G.A.ÎnL
showcases the
myth of the United States as a nation per¬
petually under construction.
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