{"id":2823,"date":"2012-07-02T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:51","slug":"the-great-american-novel-fitzgerald-wharton-morrison-on-the-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/02\/the-great-american-novel-fitzgerald-wharton-morrison-on-the-search\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great American Novel: We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been looking for one since the 1860s. Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2012\/06\/the_great_american_novel_fitzgerald_wharton_morrison_on_the_search_.single.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/1207_SBR_THE_GREAT_AMERICAN_NOVEL_KENNEDY1.jpg.CROP_.article568-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept of the GAN (Great American Novel) seems to have been born in the late 1860s. In an 1868 <em>The<\/em><em>Nation<\/em> essay, Civil War veteran John William DeForest\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhimself an aspiring GAN-ist\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddescribed the GAN as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a work that painted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the American soul.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/books\/2012\/06\/the_great_american_novel_fitzgerald_wharton_morrison_on_the_search_.single.html\">The Great American Novel: Fitzgerald, Wharton, Morrison on the search. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept of the &#8216;Great American Novel&#8217; seems to have been born in the late 1860s. In an 1868 The Nation essay, Civil War veteran John William DeForest\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhimself an aspiring GAN-ist\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddescribed the GAN as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the picture of the ordinary emotions and manners of American existence,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a work that painted \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the American soul.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[647,648,649,650,42],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-greatamericannovel","tag-novel","tag-onthelookout","tag-slatemagazine","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10033,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/10033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}