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The Oxford history of the novel in English. Volume 5, The American novel to 1870
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the ""literary"" novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and ea
| Title |
The Oxford history of the novel in English. Volume 5, The American novel to 1870 / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person Jonathan Arac [and thirty four others], contributors. |
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| Publisher |
Oxford : Oxford University Press |
| Creation Date |
[2014] |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. English |
| Content |
Cover Contents Acknowledgments Contributors General Editor's Preface Introduction: The American Novel to 1870 J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person Part I: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States 1. Before the American Novel Betsy Erkkila 2. The Sentimental Novel and the Seductions of Postcolonial 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 II: The Novel and Americannation Building6. 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 III: 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 NovelPatricia Okker 13. Cheap Sensation: Pamphlet Potboilers and Beadle's Dime Novels Shelley Streeby Part IV: 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 V: Major Novels 19. The Last of the Mohicans: Race to Citizenship Leland S. Person 20. The Scarlet LetterMonika Elbert 21. Moby-Dick and Globalization John Carlos Rowe 22. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin David S. Reynolds Part VI: 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 G. Wilson 26. Ethnic Novels and the Construction of the Multicultural Nation to 1870 John Lowe 27. Women's Novels and the Gendering of Genius Renée Bergland 28. Male Hybrids in Classic American Fiction David Leverenz29. Studying Nature in the Antebellum Novel Timothy Sweet 30. Novels of Faith and Doubt in a Changing Culture Caroline Levander Part VII: Fictional Subgenres 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 of American Novelists to 1870 General Index |
| Series |
The Oxford History of the Novel in English 5 |
| Extent |
1 online resource (655 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2014 |
| National Library system number |
997010715298605171 |
MARC RECORDS
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- American fiction 18th century History and criticism.
- American fiction 19th century History and criticism.
- Literature and society United States History 18th century.
- Literature and society United States History 19th century.
- American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Literature Social aspects
- Literature and sociology
- Society and literature
- Sociology and literature
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