TY - BOOK AU - Chase,Richard Volney TI - The American novel and its tradition SN - 080182303X AV - PS371 .C487a 1983 U1 - 813/.009 PY - 1957///, 1980 printing CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism N1 - Reprint of the 1st ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y; Includes index; Bibliography: p. 247-248 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0602/79003702-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0602/79003702-d.html ER -