Screen LibraryA companion to American fiction, 1865-1914
"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 w...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470996829 |
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"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. 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 621 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781405165051 1405165057 1405100648 9781405100649 9781405178310 1405178310 9780470996829 047099682X |
| Index Number: | PS377 |
| CLC: | I712.074 |
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Historical traditions and genres. Practice and promotion of American literary realism / Excitement and consciousness in the romance tradition / Sentimental and domestic traditions, 1865-1900 / Morality, modernity, and "malarial restlessness" : American realism in Its Anglo-European contexts / American literary naturalism / American regionalism : local color, national identity, and global imperative / Women authors and the roots of American modernism / Short story and the short story sequence, 1865-1914 / Contexts and themes. Ecological narrative and nature writing / "Frontier story" : the violence of literary history / Native American narratives : resistance and survivance / Representing the Civil War and reconstruction : from Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus / Engendering the canon : women's narratives, 1865-1914 / Confronting the crisis : African American narratives / Fiction's many cities / Mapping the culture of abundance : literary narratives and consumer culture / Secrets of the master's deed box : narrative and class / "Ethnic realism" / Darwin, science, and narrative / Writing in the "vulgar tongue" : law and American narrative / Planning utopia / American children's narrative as social criticism, 1865-1914 / Major authors. Idea of order at Concord : soul and society in the mind of Louisa May Alcott / America can break your heart : on the significance of Mark Twain / William Dean Howells and the bourgeois quotidian : affection, skepticism, disillusion / Henry James in a new century / Toward a modernist aesthetic : the literary legacy of Edith Wharton / Sensations of style : the literary realism of Stephen Crane / Theodore Dreiser and the force of the personal / |