"In this disturbing country, …it is possible more easily to discard the inessential and to attempt the infinite. (V, p.33)

2.) (1972) The Escape Motif in the American Novel: Mark Twain to Richard Wright

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) first of the modern escape novels 

Carson McCuller's The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Richard Wright's Native Son

Other Examples

Jack Kerouac's On the Road