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The American novel to 1870 /

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Corporate Author: UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)
Other Authors: Arac, Jonathan, 1945- (Editor), Kennedy, J. Gerald (Editor), Parrinder, Patrick (Editor), Person, Leland S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 5.
Subjects:
American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > European influences.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Literature and society > United States > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The American Novel to 1870
  • 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 / RenĂ©e 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.