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The Cambridge introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel /
"Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in Americ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments 11
- Introduction 12
- The Early American Novel 23
- 1 The Romance 64
- What is Romance? 64
- Historical Romance 77
- Philosophical Romance 149
- Sensational Romance 206
- 2 The Sentimental Novel 224
- What is the Sentimental Novel? 224
- Theme and Variations: a Young Woman's story 244
- Sentiment and Reform 271
- The Sentimental Novel and the Argument against Reform 293
- Sentiment, Upward Mobility, and the African American Novel 302
- Moving toward Realism 319
- 3 The Realist Novel 330
- What is American Literary Realism? 330
- Realist Technique and Subject Matter. 349
- Tensions, Divergences, and Extremes within Realism 377
- The Taste for Excess
- Sensationalism Redux 429
- Works cited 469.