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    <namePart>Chase, Richard Volney</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1914-1962</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>c1957, 1980 printing</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Richard Chase.</note>
  <note>Reprint of the 1st ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
  <note>Bibliography: p. 247-248.</note>
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