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Page xiv
... American ? ' . American society , Crèvecœur writes , is not composed , as in Europe , of great lords who possess every- thing , and of a herd of people who have nothing . Here are no aristocratical families , no courts , no kings , no ...
... American ? ' . American society , Crèvecœur writes , is not composed , as in Europe , of great lords who possess every- thing , and of a herd of people who have nothing . Here are no aristocratical families , no courts , no kings , no ...
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... American , by virtue of his being an American , with all that that entails , must come to terms with his Americanness and seek to define it . In the last analysis , the theme of many of the best American novels is America itself . The ...
... American , by virtue of his being an American , with all that that entails , must come to terms with his Americanness and seek to define it . In the last analysis , the theme of many of the best American novels is America itself . The ...
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... America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an almost perfect example of another apparently abiding characteristic of the American novelist , what Professor John ...
... America should be which he has to set against the actualities of American life in order to judge them . Dreiser is an almost perfect example of another apparently abiding characteristic of the American novelist , what Professor John ...
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