Published on
Apr 2, 2025
American Literature’s White Whale: Why the “Great American Novel” is Still Worth Pursuing
John William De Forest’s Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Session to Loyalty might not have been the “Great American Novel,” but its author was the first who conceived of their being such a thing. In 1868, while writing in The Nation, Deforest called for the …
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