This state-of-the-art literary history of the American novel, from the late eighteenth century to the modern day, presents original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world. Together they form a chronological narrative offering updated views on classics while also introducing new views, new categories, and a new format.
This state-of-the-art literary history of the American novel, from the late eighteenth century to the modern day, presents original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world. Together they form a chronological narrative offering updated views on classics while also introducing new views, new categories, and a new format.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
General introduction Part I. Inventing the American Novel: Introduction 1. Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel 2. Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US 3. Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early Republic 4. The novel in the antebellum book market 5. American land, American landscape, American novels 6. Cooper and the idea of the Indian 7. The nineteenth-century historical novel 8. Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance 9. Melville and the novel of the sea 10. Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel 11. Manhood in the early American novel 12. Sentimentalism 13. Supernatural novels 14. Imagining the South 15. Stowe, race and the antebellum American novel 16. The early African American novel Part II. Realism, Protest, Accommodation: Introduction 17. Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells 18. James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal 19. Theories of the American novel in the age of realism 20. The novel in postbellum print culture 21. Twain, class, and the Gilded Age 22. Dreiser and the city 23. Novels of civic protest 24. Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism 25. New Americans and the immigrant novel 26. Cather and the regional imagination 27. Wharton, marriage, and the new woman 28. The postbellum racial novel 29. The African American novel after Reconstruction 30. Literary Darwinism and the rise of naturalism 31. Imagining the frontier 32. Imperialism, orientalism, and Empire 33. The Hemispheric novel in the post-Revolutionary era 34. The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism 35. Dime novels and the rise of mass market genres 36. Readers and reading groups Part III. Modernism and Beyond: Introduction 37. Hemingway, Stein, and American modernisms 38. The Great Gatsby and the 1920s 39. Philosophy and the American novel 40. Steinbeck and the proletarian novel 41. The novel, mass culture, mass media 42. Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel 43. Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order 44. Religion and the twentieth-century American novel 45. Faulkner and the Southern novel 46. Law and the American novel 47. Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback 48. The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense 49. US novels and US wars 50. Science fiction 51. Female genre fiction in the twentieth century 52. Children's novels 53. The American novel and the rise of the suburbs 54. The Jewish great American novel 55. The Beats and the 1960s 56. Literary feminisms 57. Reimagining genders and sexualities Part IV. Contemporary Formations: Introduction 58. Postmodern novels 59. The nonfiction novel 60. Disability and the American novel 61. Model minorities and the minority model - the neoliberal novel 62. The American Borderlands novel 63. The rise of the Asian American novel 64. Toni Morrison and the post-Civil Rights African American novel 65. Hemispheric American novels 66. The worlding of the American novel 67. The Native American tradition 68. Eco-novels 69. Graphic novels 70. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities 71. A history of the future of narrative A selected bibliography Index.
General introduction Part I. Inventing the American Novel: Introduction 1. Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel 2. Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US 3. Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early Republic 4. The novel in the antebellum book market 5. American land, American landscape, American novels 6. Cooper and the idea of the Indian 7. The nineteenth-century historical novel 8. Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance 9. Melville and the novel of the sea 10. Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel 11. Manhood in the early American novel 12. Sentimentalism 13. Supernatural novels 14. Imagining the South 15. Stowe, race and the antebellum American novel 16. The early African American novel Part II. Realism, Protest, Accommodation: Introduction 17. Realism and radicalism: the school of Howells 18. James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal 19. Theories of the American novel in the age of realism 20. The novel in postbellum print culture 21. Twain, class, and the Gilded Age 22. Dreiser and the city 23. Novels of civic protest 24. Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism 25. New Americans and the immigrant novel 26. Cather and the regional imagination 27. Wharton, marriage, and the new woman 28. The postbellum racial novel 29. The African American novel after Reconstruction 30. Literary Darwinism and the rise of naturalism 31. Imagining the frontier 32. Imperialism, orientalism, and Empire 33. The Hemispheric novel in the post-Revolutionary era 34. The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism 35. Dime novels and the rise of mass market genres 36. Readers and reading groups Part III. Modernism and Beyond: Introduction 37. Hemingway, Stein, and American modernisms 38. The Great Gatsby and the 1920s 39. Philosophy and the American novel 40. Steinbeck and the proletarian novel 41. The novel, mass culture, mass media 42. Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel 43. Ellison and Baldwin: aesthetics, activism, and the social order 44. Religion and the twentieth-century American novel 45. Faulkner and the Southern novel 46. Law and the American novel 47. Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback 48. The novel of crime, mystery, and suspense 49. US novels and US wars 50. Science fiction 51. Female genre fiction in the twentieth century 52. Children's novels 53. The American novel and the rise of the suburbs 54. The Jewish great American novel 55. The Beats and the 1960s 56. Literary feminisms 57. Reimagining genders and sexualities Part IV. Contemporary Formations: Introduction 58. Postmodern novels 59. The nonfiction novel 60. Disability and the American novel 61. Model minorities and the minority model - the neoliberal novel 62. The American Borderlands novel 63. The rise of the Asian American novel 64. Toni Morrison and the post-Civil Rights African American novel 65. Hemispheric American novels 66. The worlding of the American novel 67. The Native American tradition 68. Eco-novels 69. Graphic novels 70. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities 71. A history of the future of narrative A selected bibliography Index.
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