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A companion to American fic...
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 war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major au
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monografia Rebiun21441527 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun21441527 m o d | cr#-n--------- 041221s2005 maua obf 001 0 eng 2004029758 1-78268-381-X 1-280-85083-3 9786610850839 1-4051-6505-7 0-470-99682-X 1-4051-7831-0 UPVA 997916330203706 CBUC 991010358312406709 CBUC 991010358312406709 CBUC 991001003790306712 CBUC 991010358312406709 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng n-us--- 813.409 813/.409 A companion to American fiction, 1865-1914 electronic resource] edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson Malden, MA Oxford Blackwell Pub. 2005 Malden, MA Oxford Malden, MA Oxford Blackwell Pub. 1 online resource (642 p.) 1 online resource (642 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Blackwell companions to literature and culture Description based upon print version of record Includes bibliographical references and index A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; PART I Historical Traditions and Genres; 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism; 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition; 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865...1900; 4 Morality, Modernity, and ''Malarial Restlessness'':; 5 American Literary Naturalism; 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits; 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865...1914PART II Contexts and Themes; 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing; 10 ''The Frontier Story'': The Violence of Literary History; 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance; 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus; 13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865...1914; 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives; 15 Fiction's Many Cities; 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class18 Ethnic Realism; 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative; 20 Writing in the ''Vulgar Tongue'': Law and American Narrative; 21 Planning Utopia; 22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865...1914; PART III Major Authors; 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott; 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain; 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion; 26 Henry James in a New Century 27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane; 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal; Index 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 war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major au English American fiction- 19th century- History and criticism- Handbooks, manuals, etc American fiction- 20th century- History and criticism- Handbooks, manuals, etc Electronic books Lamb, Robert Paul 1951-) Thompson, Gary Richard 1937-) 1-4051-9553-3 1-4051-0064-8 Blackwell companions to literature and culture