The American novel and its tradition /
Richard Chase.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1957, 1980 printing.
- xii, 266 pages ; 21 cm
Reprint of the 1st ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 247-248.
Through romance, these writers mirror the extremes of American culture-the Puritan melodrama of good and evil, or the pastoral idyll inspired by the American wilderness.