{"product_id":"form-of-american-romance","title":"Form of American Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1988. Edgar Dryden challenges recent criticism that has tended to discredit—or at least devalue—the importance of \"romance\" as a thematic and generic category of American fiction. In The Form of American Romance, he examines its evolution and meaning through readings of five exemplary texts: Hawthorne's Marble Faun, Melville's Pierre, James's Portrait of a Lady, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, and Barth's Letters. Each of these novels treats the problems of reading and writing in a self-referential way that reflects on the questions they dramatize, and Dryden has chosen each with the others in mind. Taken together, they chart a line of development with representative examples of what literary history calls romanticism, realism, modernism, and postmodernism, and thus they suggest a certain story about the continuity of the American novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54226385437016,"sku":"9781421431123","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781421431123__67740dda10861_dafae481-e924-416d-896a-d050b0982d07.jpg?v=1741156348","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/form-of-american-romance","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}