The Eccentric Design : : Form in the Classic American Novel / / Marius Bewley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Bewley, Marius,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1963]; ©1963
• Year of Publication: 1963
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. The Question of Form --; II. A Sketch for an Historical Background --; III. Fenimore Cooper and the Economic Age --; IV. Form in Fenimore Cooper's Novels --; V. Symbolism and Subject Matter --; VI. Hawthorne's Short Stories --; VII. Hawthorne's Novels --; VIII. Melville --; IX. Henry James and 'Life' --; X. Henry James and the Economic Age --; XI. Scott Fitzgerald and the Collapse of the American Dream --; XII. The Americanness of the American Novel --; Appendix A. Hamilton's Financial Reforms --; Appendix B. The Genteel Tradition --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231893329; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/bewl93362
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marius Bewley.

A review of the form and style traditions of the American novel. Includes historical context and analysis of a sampling of classic American novelists. .