TY - BOOK AU - Chase,Richard TI - The American Novel and Its Tradition SN - 0-8018-2303 U1 - 813.09 PY - 1957/// CY - United States of America PB - JHUP KW - LITERATURA ESTADOUNIDENSE KW - TRADICIONES N2 - 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 ER -