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The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States. The term was coined by John William De Forest in an 1868 essay and later shortened to GAN.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s magic emanates not only from its powerhouse poetic style—in which ordinary American language becomes unearthly—but from the authority with which it nails who we want to be as Americans.
- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick. Among all Great American Novel candidates, perhaps Moby-Dick (1851) best meets Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee’s test. [“As long as the classic needs to be protected from attack, it can never prove itself classic.”]
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird. [T]he Great American Novel is a moving target and that the space is filled by a novel that in any particular time best fulfills three main criteria
Mar 14, 2024 · This list includes 45 debut novels, nine winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and three children’s books. Twelve were published before the introduction of the mass-market paperback to ...
Apr 13, 2020 · What is the Great American Novel? Its existence as a singular volume is surely a myth , but what is the concept of the Great American Novel? Here I will run down the history of the concept and attempt to determine once and for all what we mean when we say “the great American novel.”
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Jun 30, 2016 · By Carolyn Kellogg. June 30, 2016 8 AM PT. The Great American Novel: A book that most perfectly imagines the kaleidoscope of our nation, its social fabric and its troubled conscience, its ...
Nov 19, 2020 · 19 November 2020. Great American Novels. Image: Ryan MacEachern/Penguin. The Great American Novel is, without a whisper of doubt, literature's most elusive (some even say mythical) beast. For 150 years, since the novelist John William De Forest first coined the term, the argument over what constitutes a GAN has rumbled on and on.
Jan 13, 2015 · In 1868, John William De Forest published an essay in The Nation titled “The Great American Novel.” In it, he argued for the rise of fiction that more accurately reflected American society...
