The American Novel and Its Tradition /
Richard Chase
- 1.ed.
- United States of America JHUP , 1957
- 266p.: 20cm
The best novelists, he argues, have found uses for romance beyond the escapism, fantasy, and sentimentality often associated with it. 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.