{"id":11411,"count":33,"description":"For an introduction to American literature, we recommend our interview with Laurence Buell, a professor of American literature at Harvard, about 'the Great American novel.' <em>Moby-Dick<\/em> by Herman Melville and <em>Beloved<\/em> by Toni Morrison are among his candidates for the greatest American novel. He explains what defines classic American literature, including the 'romance of the divide' and books with heterogeneous assemblages of characters that address the issue of democracy in America. We also have more detailed breakdowns of American literature e.g. by author or by century:","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/books\/american-literature\/","name":"Classic American Literature","slug":"american-literature","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/11411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=11411"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?tags=11411"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?tags=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}