Download or read book Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1 written by Peter Rawlings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.