In a refreshingly original approach to the
relationship between history and fiction ,
Harry B. Henderson analyses works of
significant American novelists from James
Fenimore Cooper to Thomas Pynchon.
He demonstrates that many of the same
basic assumptions and attitudes about
America's past have dominated the
thoughts of writers from the early nine–
teenth century to the present day.
"An impressive, illuminating and
authoritative study."- Maxwell Geismar
"Brilliantly discerning."
- Norman Holmes Pearson, Yale University
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