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Bookmark or Share- The Atlantic's List of The Great American Novels - BOOK RIOTCommunity Mar 14, 2024. The Atlantic just launched their list of the The Great American Novels. The list is the result of a project that looks at the most influential novels in America for the past 100 years (roughly from 1924-2023). The 136 novels on the list were chosen by The Atlantic’s editors, who were in conversation with scholars ...
- The Great American Novels — Bunk136 books that made America think. via The Atlantic on March 14, 2024. In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.”
- The Greatest Books: The Great American Novels from The AtlanticThe Atlantic's list of "The Great American Novels" was created with the aim of redefining the American literary canon to include a broader, more diverse selection of works published in the last 100 years.
- Great American Novel - WikipediaThe 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.
- The First Great American NovelThe First Great American Novel. It was Uncle Tom's Cabin. Randall Fuller. HUMANITIES, March/April 2013, Volume 34, Number 2. Photo caption. Soon after the Civil War ended, author John W. De Forest called for a work of fiction that would help reunite the country and at the same time place it at the pinnacle of world literature.
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