A companion to American fiction

著者

• Samuels, Shirley C.
• Lamb, Robert Paul
• Thompson, Gary Richard

書誌事項

A companion to American fiction

edited by Shirley Samuels

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 24-25）

Blackwell Pub., 2004-

• 1780-1865
• 1865-1914

注記

1865-1914: edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson

Pagination: 1780-1865. xv, 470 p.; 1865-1914. xvi, 621 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明・目次

巻冊次

1780-1865 ISBN 9780631234227

内容説明

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration Considers both canonical and lesser-known authors, including James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe Treats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English

目次

List of Illustrations viii Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xvi Introduction 1 Shirley Samuels PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts 5 1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood 7 J. Gerald Kennedy 2 Fiction and Democracy 20 Paul Downes 3 Democratic Fictions 31 Sandra M. Gustafson 4 Engendering American Fictions 40 Martha J. Cutter and Caroline F. Levander 5 Race and Ethnicity 52 Robert S. Levine 6 Class 64 Philip Gould 7 Sexualities 75 Valerie Rohy 8 Religion 87 Paul Gutjahr 9 Education and Polemic 97 Stephanie Foote 10 Marriage and Contract 108 Naomi Morgenstern 11 Transatlantic Ventures 119 Wil Verhoeven and Stephen Shapiro 12 Other Languages, Other Americas 131 Kirsten Silva Gruesz PART II Forms of Fiction 145 13 Literary Histories 147 Michael Drexler and Ed White 14 Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic 158 Christopher Lukasik 15 The American Gothic 168 Marianne Noble 16 Sensational Fiction 179 Shelley Streeby 17 Melodrama and American Fiction 191 Lori Merish 18 Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other ''Crossings'' in Fictionalized Slave Narratives 204 Cherene Sherrard-Johnson 19 Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction 216 Stephanie P. Browner 20 Law and the American Novel 228 Laura H. Korobkin 21 Labor and Fiction 239 Cindy Weinstein 22 Words for Children 249 Carol J. Singley 23 Dime Novels 262 Colin T. Ramsey and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 24 Reform and Antebellum Fiction 274 Chris Castiglia PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes 285 25 The Problem of the City 287 Heather Roberts 26 New Landscapes 301 Timothy Sweet 27 The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E. D. E. N. Southworth 314 Dana Luciano 28 Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy 330 Philip Barnard 29 Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's ''Rip Van Winkle'' 342 Eric Gary Anderson 30 New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land 353 Bethany Schneider 31 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism 365 Katherine Adams 32 Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery 378 Nancy Buffington 33 The West 388 Edward Watts 34 The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris 400 David Rachels 35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel 411 Wayne Franklin 36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick 425 Stephanie A. Smith 37 National Narrative and National History 434 Russ Castronovo Index 445

巻冊次

1865-1914 ISBN 9781405100649

内容説明

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

目次

List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xviii Editors' Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15 Nancy Glazener 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900 53 Gregg Camfield 4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck 5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119 June Howard 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin 8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914 149 J. Gerald Kennedy PART II Contexts and Themes 175 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch 10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201 Christine Bold 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222 Gerald Vizenor 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley 13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914 260 Grace Farrell 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. 15 Fiction's Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman 17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340 Christopher P. Wilson 18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender 20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395 William E. Moddelmog 21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser 22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox PART III Major Authors 449 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468 Robert Paul Lamb 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko 26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe 27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt 28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557 William E. Cain 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby Index 587

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA68933458
• ISBN:
  • 9780631234227
  • 1405100648
• LCCN: 2004029758
• LCCN: 2003026891
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Malden, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: v.
• 大きさ: 26 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS377
  • DC22 : 813/.209
• 件名:
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA33407255