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Form and fable in American fiction

In this work, first published in 1961, Hoffman combines the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain. In a new preface, he describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers.
eBook, English, 1994
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1994