literature as in life. "The first task of the novelist," he believes, "...is to create an imaginary social landscape both credible and significant." He favors the great realist writers, who...
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FAULTY CONSTRUCTION BENEATH THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville David S. Reynolds Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 625 pp. Mark Feeney It was F. O....
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