ISBN-13: 9781851967551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 1320 str.
This work presents a collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. It draws on such periodicals as the Atlantic Monthly, the Nation, and Galaxy, as well as many of the lesser-known journals and magazines of the period. Charted in these three volumes, which span the period from 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to the fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations of Thomas Sergeant Perry, George W. Lathrop, Henry James, and others.