The Oxford History of the Novel in English (eBook, PDF)

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870
Redaktion: Kennedy, J. Gerald; Person, Leland S.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the "literary" novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters. "Dime novels", literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most "American" of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199908394
• Artikelnr.: 41152487

Autorenporträt

J. Gerald Kennedy is William A. Read Professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing and Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity. He has edited four collections (two for OUP) and editions of Poe and Black Hawk. Leland S. Person is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. He is the author of Aesthetic Headaches: Women and a Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne, Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity, and The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and editor of several collections and a critical edition of The Scarlet Letter.

Inhaltsangabe

* "Introduction: The American Novel to 1870," J. Gerald Kennedy and
Leland S. Person
* Part 1: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States
* 1. "Before the American Novel," Betsy Erkkilä
* 2. "The Sentimental Novel and the Seductions of Post-Colonial
Imitation," Karen A. Weyler
* 3. "Complementary Strangers: Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson,
and the Early American Sentimental Gothic," Marion Rust
* 4. "Trends and Patterns in the US Novel, 1800-1820," Ed White
* 5. "Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic," Leonard Tennenhouse
* Part 2: The Novel and American Nation-building
* 6. "Walter Scott and the American Historical Novel," Fiona Robertson
* 7. "Revolutionary Novels and the Problem of Literary Nationalism,"
Joseph J. Letter
* 8. "Frontier Novels, Border Wars, and Indian Removal," Dana D. Nelson
* 9. "America's Europe: Irving, Poe, and the 'Foreign Subject,'" J.
Gerald Kennedy
* Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel
* 10. "Publishers, Booksellers, and the Literary Market," Michael
Winship
* 11. "The Perils of Authorship: Literary Property and
Nineteenth-Century American Fiction," Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith
L. McGill
* 12. "Periodicals and the Novel," Patricia Okker
* 13. "Cheap Sensation: Pamphlet Potboilers and Beadle's Dime Novels,"
Shelley Streeby
* Part 4: Leading Novelists of Antebellum America
* 14. "James Fenimore Cooper: Beyond Leather-Stocking," Wayne Franklin
* 15. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Domestic and National Narratives,"
James L. Machor
* 16. "Hawthorne and the Historical Romance," Larry J. Reynolds
* 17. "Herman Melville," Jonathan Arac
* 18. "Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Antislavery Cause," John Ernest
* Part 5: Major Novels
* 19. "The Last of the Mohicans: Race to Citizenship," Leland S. Person
* 20. "The Scarlet Letter," Monika Elbert
* 21. "Moby-Dick and Globalization," John Carlos Rowe
* 22. "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin," David S. Reynolds
* Part 6: Cultural Influences on the American Novel, 1820-1870
* 23. "Transatlantic Currents and Postcolonial Anxieties," Paul Giles
* 24. "The Transamerican Novel," Anna Brickhouse
* 25. "Slavery, Abolitionism, and the African American Novel," Ivy
Wilson
* 26. "Ethnic Novels and the Construction of the Multicultural Nation
to 1870," John Lowe
* 27. "Women's Novels and the Gendering of Genius," Renée Bergland
* 28. "Male Hybrids in Classic American Fiction," David Leverenz
* 29. "Studying Nature in the Antebellum Novel," Timothy Sweet
* 30. "Novels of Faith and Doubt in a Changing Culture," Caroline
Levander
* Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres
* 31. "Temperance Novels and Moral Reform," Debra J. Rosenthal
* 32. "Novels of Travel and Exploration," Gretchen Murphy
* 33. "The City Mystery Novel," Scott Peeples
* 34. "Surviving National Disunion: Civil War Novels of the 1860s,"
Paul Christian Jones
* Composite Bibliography
* Index