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Companion to American Fiction

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.12.2005

Herausgeber

Lamb Robert Paul + weitere

Verlag

WILEY

Seitenzahl

642

Maße (L/B/H)

25/17,5/3,9 cm

Gewicht

1272 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-0064-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.12.2005

Herausgeber

Verlag

WILEY

Seitenzahl

642

Maße (L/B/H)

25/17,5/3,9 cm

Gewicht

1272 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4051-0064-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: Companion to American Fiction

  • List of Illustrations x

    Notes on Contributors xi

    Acknowledgments xviii

    Editors' Introduction 1
    Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson

    PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13

    1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15
    Nancy Glazener

    2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35
    William J. Scheick

    3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900 53
    Gregg Camfield

    4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77
    Winfried Fluck

    5 American Literary Naturalism 96
    Christophe Den Tandt

    6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119
    June Howard

    7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140
    Linda Wagner-Martin

    8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914 149
    J. Gerald Kennedy

    PART II Contexts and Themes 175

    9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177
    S. K. Robisch

    10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201
    Christine Bold

    11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222
    Gerald Vizenor

    12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240
    Kathleen Diffley

    13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914 260
    Grace Farrell

    14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279
    Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.

    15 Fiction's Many Cities 296
    Sidney H. Bremer

    16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318
    Sarah Way Sherman

    17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340
    Christopher P. Wilson

    18 Ethnic Realism 356
    Robert M. Dowling

    19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377
    Bert Bender

    20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395
    William E. Moddelmog

    21 Planning Utopia 411
    Thomas Peyser

    22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914 428
    Gwen Athene Tarbox

    PART III Major Authors 449

    23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451
    John Matteson

    24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468
    Robert Paul Lamb

    25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499
    Michael Anesko

    26 Henry James in a New Century 518
    John Carlos Rowe

    27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536
    Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt

    28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557
    William E. Cain

    29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572
    Clare Virginia Eby

    Index 587