Author	Donoghue, Denis
Title	The American classics [electronic resource] : a personal essay / Denis Donoghue
Imprint	New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2005
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300107814.001.0001
Descript	1 online resource (viii, 295 p.)

Denis Donoghue presents a short list of works of American fiction he regards as 'relative' classics: works whose appeal may not be universal, but which nonetheless have occupied an important place in American culture for more than a century

1. American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory
2. etc
3. Canon (Literature)