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The American novel to 1870 /
The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Oxford history of the novel in English ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The American Novel to 1870 / J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person
- Part 1: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States.
- Before the American novel / Betsy Erkkila
- The sentimental novel and the seductions of postcolonial imitation / Karen A. Weyler
- Complementary strangers : Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, and the early American sentimental Gothic / Marion Rust
- Trends and patterns in the US novel, 1800-1820 / Ed White
- Unsettling novels of the early republic / Leonard Tennenhouse
- Part 2: The Novel and American Nation-building.
- Walter Scott and the American historical novel / Fiona Robertson
- Revolutionary novels and the problem of literary nationalism / Joseph J. Letter
- Frontier novels, border wars, and Indian removal / Dana D. Nelson
- America's Europe : Irving, Poe, and the foreign subject / J. Gerald Kennedy
- Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel.
- Publishers, booksellers, and the literary market / Michael Winship
- The perils of authorship : literary property and nineteenth-century American fiction / Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith L. McGill
- Periodicals and the novel / Patricia Okker
- Cheap sensation : pamphlet potboilers and Beadle's dime novels / Shelley Streeby
- Part 4: Leading Novelists of Antebellum America.
- James Fenimore Cooper : beyond Leather-Stocking / Wayne Franklin
- Catharine Maria Sedgwick : domestic and national narratives / James L. Machor
- Hawthorne and the historical romance / Larry J. Reynolds
- Herman Melville / Jonathan Arac
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the antislavery cause / John Ernest
- Part 5: Major Novels.
- The last of the Mohicans : race to citizenship / Leland S. Person
- The scarlet letter / Monika Elbert
- Moby-Dick and globalization / John Carlos Rowe
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / David S. Reynolds
- Part 6: Cultural Influences on the American Novel, 1820-1870.
- Transatlantic currents and postcolonial anxieties / Paul Giles
- The Transamerican novel / Anna Brickhouse
- Slavery, abolitionism, and the African American novel / Ivy G. Wilson
- Ethnic novels and the construction of the multicultural nation to 1870 / John Lowe
- Women's novels and the gendering of genius / Renée Bergland
- Male hybrids in classic American fiction / David Leverenz
- Studying nature in the antebellum novel / Timothy Sweet
- Novels of faith and doubt in a changing culture / Caroline Levander
- Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres.
- Temperance novels and moral reform / Debra J. Rosenthal
- Novels of travel and exploration / Gretchen Murphy
- The city mystery novel / Scott Peeples
- Surviving national disunion : Civil War novels of the 1860s / Paul Christian Jones.