THE AMERICAN NOVEL
BY MARK TWAIN
THE AMERICAN NOVEL
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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THE
AMERICAN NOVEL
BY
CARL VAN DOREN
New YorkTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published June, 1921
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
IRITA VAN DOREN
CONTENTS
chapter
page
| vii |
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1. Arguments and Experiments
|
1 |
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2. The Three Matters of American Romance
|
15 |
| II | 24 |
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1. Materials and Men
|
51 |
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2. Herman Melville
|
68 |
| IV | 77 |
| V | 109 |
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1. New Frontiers and Old Settlements
|
125 |
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2. William Dean Howells
|
132 |
| VII | 157 |
| VIII | 188 |
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1. Varied Types
|
221 |
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2. Francis Marion Crawford
|
238 |
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1. Toward the Right: Rococo Romance
|
246 |
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2. Toward the Left: Naturalism
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256 |
| Â | 272 |
| Â | 281 |