The illiberal imagination : class and the rise of the U.S. novel /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shapiro, Joe, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Roman américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Classes sociales dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Social classes in literature
Social conflict in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Charles Brockden Brown, poverty, and the bildungsroman
  • Modern chivalry's defense of "the few": class, politics, and the early U.S. episodic novel
  • The providence of class: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, political economy, and sentimental fiction in the 1830s
  • No apologies for the anti-renters: class, James Fenimore Cooper, and frontier romance
  • Working-class abolitionism and anti-slavery fiction: "white slaves" and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Dred
  • Conclusion.

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