... American "fictions" which anticipate the works of nineteenthcentury novelists. Both works address large conceptions of democratic life through narrative strategies predicated on the writers' attempts,-the first resulting in successful parable and the second in failed "myth," to invest personally vouched-for recitals of experience with larger sanctions of discovered representative truth. Each writer consistently associates the claims of his discrete ... ...

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