Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 621 S.)
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Ill.
ISBN:
9780470996829
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9781405165051
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture 25
Content:
"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
Content:
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
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405100649
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. A companion to American fiction, 1865 - 1914 Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2005 ISBN 1405100648
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405100649
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Literatur
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Geschichte 1865-1914
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USA
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Literatur
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Geschichte 1865-1914
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1002/9780470996829
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