Great American Novel
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The "Great American Novel" 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 18
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe is commonly cited as the Great American Novel—John William De Forest saw it as the closest possible novel.
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Philip Roth satirized the term with his 1973 novel The Great American Novel.
Underworld (novel)
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Underworld is a 1997 novel by American writer Don DeLillo. The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to trace the history of the basebal
Great American Novel
…Wallace Lawrence Buell noted that "For an appreciable number of turn-of-the-twenty-first-century readers...Infinite Jest [is] the GAN of our days". 1997 Underworld Don DeLillo According to Robert McCrum, it developed a reputation as the GAN almost immediately after its publication. See also Encyclopedic novel…
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