Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 James Fenimore Cooper
- 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 3 Herman Melville
- 4 Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 5 Mark Twain
- 6 Henry James
- 7 Edith Wharton
- 8 Theodore Dreiser
- 9 Willa Cather
- 10 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 11 Ernest Hemingway
- 12 William Faulkner
- 13 Henry Roth
- 14 Djuna Barnes
- 15 Zora Neale Hurston
- 16 Richard Wright
- 17 Raymond Chandler
- 18 Ralph Ellison
- 19 J. D. Salinger
- 20 Patricia Highsmith
- 21 Vladimir Nabokov
- 22 Jack Kerouac
- 23 Saul Bellow
- 24 Kurt Vonnegut
- 25 John Updike
- 26 Thomas Pynchon
- 27 Toni Morrison
- 28 Philip Roth
- 29 Don DeLillo
- 30 Cormac McCarthy
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- References
Guide to Further Reading
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 James Fenimore Cooper
- 2 Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 3 Herman Melville
- 4 Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 5 Mark Twain
- 6 Henry James
- 7 Edith Wharton
- 8 Theodore Dreiser
- 9 Willa Cather
- 10 F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 11 Ernest Hemingway
- 12 William Faulkner
- 13 Henry Roth
- 14 Djuna Barnes
- 15 Zora Neale Hurston
- 16 Richard Wright
- 17 Raymond Chandler
- 18 Ralph Ellison
- 19 J. D. Salinger
- 20 Patricia Highsmith
- 21 Vladimir Nabokov
- 22 Jack Kerouac
- 23 Saul Bellow
- 24 Kurt Vonnegut
- 25 John Updike
- 26 Thomas Pynchon
- 27 Toni Morrison
- 28 Philip Roth
- 29 Don DeLillo
- 30 Cormac McCarthy
- Guide to Further Reading
- Index
- References
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Novelists , pp. 311 - 314Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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