The American novel to 1870

Author(s)

• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Person, Leland S.

Bibliographic Information

The American novel to 1870

edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

（The Oxford history of the novel in English, v. 5）

Oxford University Press, c2014

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new eleven-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic

Table of Contents

• "Introduction: The American Novel to 1870," J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person
• Part 1: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States
• 1. "Before the American Novel," Betsy Erkkila
• 2. "The Sentimental Novel and the Seductions of Post-Colonial Imitation," Karen A. Weyler
• 3. "Complementary Strangers: Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, and the Early American Sentimental Gothic," Marion Rust
• 4. "Trends and Patterns in the US Novel, 1800-1820," Ed White
• 5. "Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic," Leonard Tennenhouse
• Part 2: The Novel and American Nation-building
• 6. "Walter Scott and the American Historical Novel," Fiona Robertson
• 7. "Revolutionary Novels and the Problem of Literary Nationalism," Joseph J. Letter
• 8. "Frontier Novels, Border Wars, and Indian Removal," Dana D. Nelson
• 9. "America's Europe: Irving, Poe, and the 'Foreign Subject,'" J. Gerald Kennedy
• Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel
• 10. "Publishers, Booksellers, and the Literary Market," Michael Winship
• 11. "The Perils of Authorship: Literary Property and Nineteenth-Century American Fiction," Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith L. McGill
• 12. "Periodicals and the Novel," Patricia Okker
• 13. "Cheap Sensation: Pamphlet Potboilers and Beadle's Dime Novels," Shelley Streeby
• Part 4: Leading Novelists of Antebellum America
• 14. "James Fenimore Cooper: Beyond Leather-Stocking," Wayne Franklin
• 15. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Domestic and National Narratives," James L. Machor
• 16. "Hawthorne and the Historical Romance," Larry J. Reynolds
• 17. "Herman Melville," Jonathan Arac
• 18. "Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Antislavery Cause," John Ernest
• Part 5: Major Novels
• 19. "The Last of the Mohicans: Race to Citizenship," Leland S. Person
• 20. "The Scarlet Letter," Monika Elbert
• 21. "Moby-Dick and Globalization," John Carlos Rowe
• 22. "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin," David S. Reynolds
• Part 6: Cultural Influences on the American Novel, 1820-1870
• 23. "Transatlantic Currents and Postcolonial Anxieties," Paul Giles
• 24. "The Transamerican Novel," Anna Brickhouse
• 25. "Slavery, Abolitionism, and the African American Novel," Ivy Wilson
• 26. "Ethnic Novels and the Construction of the Multicultural Nation to 1870," John Lowe
• 27. "Women's Novels and the Gendering of Genius," Renee Bergland
• 28. "Male Hybrids in Classic American Fiction," David Leverenz
• 29. "Studying Nature in the Antebellum Novel," Timothy Sweet
• 30. "Novels of Faith and Doubt in a Changing Culture," Caroline Levander
• Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres
• 31. "Temperance Novels and Moral Reform," Debra J. Rosenthal
• 32. "Novels of Travel and Exploration," Gretchen Murphy
• 33. "The City Mystery Novel," Scott Peeples
• 34. "Surviving National Disunion: Civil War Novels of the 1860s," Paul Christian Jones
• Composite Bibliography
• Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB16120228
• ISBN:
  • 9780195385359
• LCCN: 2013033712
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 640 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS375
  • DC23 : 813/.209
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  • LCSH : American literature -- European influences
  • LCSH : Social conflict in literature
  • LCSH : National characteristics, American, in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB04591216