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A companion to the American novel /
Featuring 38 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day. Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
80. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Historical Developments. The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre / Alfred Bendixen
- The American Novel: Beginnings through the American Renaissance / Maria Karafilis
- The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860₆1920) / Jeanne Campbell Reesman
- Modernism and the American Novel / Peter L Hays
- Beyond Modernism: The American Novel between the World Wars / Alfred Bendixen
- The Cold War Novel: The American Novel between 1945₆1970 / Sharon Becker, Wendy Martin
- The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and other Issues (1970-Present) / Martha J Cutter
- Genres and Traditions. Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States / Charles L Crow
- The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E.L. Doctorow / Emily Miller Budick
- Making this whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States / Marianne Noble
- Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel / Chip Rhodes
- The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier / James H Meredith
- From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel / Judith Yaross Lee
- Plotting a way Home: The Jewish American Novel / Derek Parker Royal
- Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel / Juan J Alonzo
- African American Traditions and the American Novel / Melvin Donalson
- The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection / Leonard Cassuto
- O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel / Eric S Rabkin
- Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States / Jean Pfaelzer
- Queer Theory and the American Novel / Deborah Carlin
- The American Short-Story Cycle: Out from the Novel's Shadow / Robert M Luscher
- Major Texts. The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's / Monika Elbert
- Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's / Wyn Kelley
- Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's / Susan Belasco
- Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's / Greg W Zacharias
- Mark Twain's : A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace / Michael J Kiskis
- What Women want: Kate Chopin's / Emily Toth
- Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's / James Nagel
- Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's / Kathy Fedorko
- The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's / James Nagel
- Fitzgerald's and the Myth of the Land / Richard Lehan
- Ground Zero: Faulkner's / Philip Weinstein
- A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's and the Great American Novel / Andrew Warnes
- Our : The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity / John Carlos Rowe
- The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's / Ben Siegel
- The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's / Valerie Smith
- A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's / Olivia Carr Edenfield
- Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel
- Index.