| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 621 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Contents |
Historical traditions and genres. Practice and promotion of American literary realism / Nancy Glazener -- Excitement and consciousness in the romance tradition / William J. Scheick -- Sentimental and domestic traditions, 1865-1900 / Gregg Camfield -- Morality, modernity, and "malarial restlessness" : American realism in Its Anglo-European contexts / Winfried Fluck -- American literary naturalism / Christophe Den Tandt -- American regionalism : local color, national identity, and global imperative / Jane Howard -- Women authors and the roots of American modernism / Linda Wagner-Martin -- Short story and the short story sequence, 1865-1914 / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Contexts and themes. Ecological narrative and nature writing / S.K. Robisch -- "Frontier story" : the violence of literary history / Christine Bold -- Native American narratives : resistance and survivance / Gerald Vizenor -- Representing the Civil War and reconstruction : from Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus / Kathleen Diffley -- Engendering the canon : women's narratives, 1865-1914 / Grace Farrell -- Confronting the crisis : African American narratives / Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. -- Fiction's many cities / Sidney H. Bremer -- Mapping the culture of abundance : literary narratives and consumer culture / Sarah Way Sherman -- Secrets of the master's deed box : narrative and class / Christopher P. Wilson -- "Ethnic realism" / Robert M. Dowling -- Darwin, science, and narrative / Bert Bender -- Writing in the "vulgar tongue" : law and American narrative / William E. Moddelmog -- Planning utopia / Thomas Peyser -- American children's narrative as social criticism, 1865-1914 / Gwen Athene Tarbox -- Major authors. Idea of order at Concord : soul and society in the mind of Louisa May Alcott / John Matteson -- America can break your heart : on the significance of Mark Twain / Robert Paul Lamb -- William Dean Howells and the bourgeois quotidian : affection, skepticism, disillusion / Michael Anesko -- Henry James in a new century / John Carlos Rowe -- Toward a modernist aesthetic : the literary legacy of Edith Wharton / Candace Waid, Clare Colquitt -- Sensations of style : the literary realism of Stephen Crane / William E. Cain -- Theodore Dreiser and the force of the personal / Clare Virginia Eby |
| Summary |
"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."--Publisher's website |
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Divided into sections discussing historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors, this title covers a mixture of canonical themes, authors, literatures and critical approaches in order to define the development of American literature during this period |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lamb, Robert Paul, 1951-
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Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
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Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
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| LC no. |
2004029758 |
| ISBN |
047099682X |
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1405100648 (hard cover ; alk. paper) |
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1405165057 |
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1405178310 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470996829 |
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9781405100649 |
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9781405165051 |
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9781405178310 (electronic bk.) |
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