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Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 568 pp. $39.95. ISBN: 978-0674051157

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Abstract

Can the scale and diversity of American life be captured in American letters? This is the qustion that literary scholar Lawrence Buell seeks to answer through the classification of four ways of writing the Great American Novel.

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  1. Department of American Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 02454-9110, USA

    Stephen J. Whitfield

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Whitfield, S.J. Lawrence Buell, The Dream of the Great American Novel . Soc 52, 398–401 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9919-x

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