A 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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Blackwell Reference Online (Online service)
Other Authors: Lamb, Robert Paul, 1951-, Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
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:
  • 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.