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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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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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.