Bartleby Weekly: May 1, 2000

Bartleby Weekly

Volume I, Issue 7. May 1, 2000

Van Doren Charts the Course of the “Great American Novel”

Columbia professor Carl Van Doren—editor of the Cambridge History of American Literature and member of a great American family of letters—traces in The American Novel the development of “long prose narratives in which the element of fact is on the whole less than the element of fiction.” While avoiding any narrow definition, he nevertheless established the pantheon of American writers.

Enjoy the full journey or choose a favorite author like Cooper, Hawthorne or Twain: The American Novel.

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