A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Shirley Samuels
- PART I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
- National narrative and the problem of American nationhood / J. Gerald Kennedy
- Fiction and democracy / Paul Downes
- Democratic fictions / Sandra M. Gustafson
- Engendering American fictions / Martha J. Cutter, Caroline F. Levander
- Race and ethnicity / Robert S. Levine
- Class / Philip Gould
- Sexualities / Valerie Rohy
- Religion / Paul Gutjahr
- Education and polemic / Stephanie Foote
- Marriage and contract / Naomi Morgenstern
- Transatlantic ventures / Wil Verhoeven, Stephen Shapiro
- Other languages, other Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- PART II. FORMS OF FICTION
- Literary histories / Michael Drexler, Ed White
- Breeding and reading: Chesterfieldian civility in the early republic / Christopher Lukasik
- The American gothic / Marianne Noble
- Sensational fiction / Shelley Streeby
- Melodrama and American fiction / Lori Merish
- Delicate boundaries: passing and other crossings in fictionalized slave narratives / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
- Doctors, bodies, and fiction / Stephanie P. Browner
- Law and the American novel / Laura H. Korobkin
- Labor and fiction / Cindy Weinstein
- Words for children / Carol J. Singley
- Dime novels / Colin T. Ramsey, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
- Reform and antebellum fiction / Chris Castiglia
- PART III. AUTHORS, LOCATIONS, PURPOSES
- The problem of the city / Heather Roberts
- New landscapes / Timothy Sweet
- The gothic meets sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Dana Luciano
- Retold legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy / Philip Barnard
- Captivity and freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle / Eric Gary Anderson
- New England tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the dislocations of Indian land / Bethany Schneider
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American racialist exceptionalism / Katherine Adams
- Fictions of the South: southern portraits of slavery / Nancy Buffington
- The West / Edward Watts
- The old southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / David Rachels
- James Fenimore Cooper and the invention of the American novel / Wayne Franklin
- The sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick / Stephanie A. Smith
- National narrative and national history / Russ Castronovo.