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1 online resource |
Series |
The Oxford history of the novel in English ; volume five |
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Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 5.
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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. -- 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 |
Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Print version title: The American novel from its beginnings to 1870 |
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"General editor: Patrick Parrinder; Consulting editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac"--Title page verso |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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American literature -- European influences
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Social conflict in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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American literature -- Colonial period
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American literature -- European influences
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Literature and society
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Social conflict in literature
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor
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Person, Leland S., editor
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Parrinder, Patrick, 1944- editor.
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Arac, Jonathan, 1945- editor.
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ISBN |
9780199908394 |
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0199908397 |
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