Founded in Fiction : The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States /

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An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic-one that challenges the "rise of the novel" narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fict...

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Autor principal: Koenigs, Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Temas:
American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and society > United States > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature.
Social problems in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Arthur Gordon Pym.
Jacksonian.
Sheppard Lee.
Uncle Tom's Cabin.
antebellum.
classic.
development of American novel.
early American literature.
female conduct.
history of the novel.
inner life.
leisure.
literary history.
literary hoaxes.
novelization.
slave interiority.
slave narrative.
slave narratives.
slavery.
social activity.
theory of the novel.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • chapter 1 The Problem of Fictionality and the Nonfictional Novel
  • chapter 2 Republican Fictions
  • chapter 3 Fictionality and Female Conduct
  • PART II
  • chapter 4 The Shifting Logics of Historical Fiction
  • chapter 5 Hoaxing in an Age of Novels
  • chapter 6 Fictionality and Social Criticism
  • chapter 7 Fictionality, Slavery, and Intersubjective Knowledge
  • Coda: Romance and Reality in the 1850s and Beyond
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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