Chase, Richard Volney, 1914-1962

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.

080182303X

79003702


American fiction--History and criticism.

PS371 / .C487a 1983

813/.009