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A Companion to the American Novel

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

24.11.2014

Herausgeber

Alfred Bendixen

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

704

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/16,9/4 cm

Gewicht

1041 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-91748-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

24.11.2014

Herausgeber

Alfred Bendixen

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

704

Maße (L/B/H)

24,6/16,9/4 cm

Gewicht

1041 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-118-91748-0

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: A Companion to the American Novel
  • Notes on Contributors ix
     
    Preface xix
     
    Acknowledgments xxi
     
    A Chronology of the American Novel xxii
     
    Part I: Historical Developments 1
     
    1 The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3
    Alfred Bendixen
     
    2 The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19
    Maria Karafilis
     
    3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860-1920) 42
    Jeanne Campbell Reesman
     
    4 Modernism and the American Novel 60
    Peter L. Hays
     
    5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76
    Alfred Bendixen
     
    6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945-1970 90
    Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin
     
    7 The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970-Present) 109
    Martha J. Cutter
     
    Part II: Genres and Traditions 127
     
    8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States 129
    Charles L. Crow
     
    9 The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147
    Emily Miller Budick
     
    10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States 170
    Marianne Noble
     
    11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel 187
    Chip Rhodes
     
    12 The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier 206
    James H. Meredith
     
    13 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218
    Judith Yaross Lee
     
    14 Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241
    Derek Parker Royal
     
    15 Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel 259
    Juan J. Alonzo
     
    16 African American Traditions and the American Novel 274
    Melvin Donalson
     
    17 The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291
    Leonard Cassuto
     
    18 O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309
    Eric S. Rabkin
     
    19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323
    Jean Pfaelzer
     
    20 Queer Theory and the American Novel 342
    Deborah Carlin
     
    21 The American Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel's Shadow 357
    Robert M. Luscher
     
    Part III: Major Texts 373
     
    22 The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter 375
    Monika Elbert
     
    23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's Moby-Dick 394
    Wyn Kelley
     
    24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin 408
    Susan Belasco
     
    25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady 422
    Greg W. Zacharias
     
    26 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace 443
    Michael J. Kiskis
     
    27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin's The Awakening 454
    Emily Toth
     
    28 Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage 465
    James Nagel
     
    29 Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth 475
    Kathy Fedorko
     
    30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises 488
    James Nagel
     
    31 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land 499
    Richard Lehan
     
    32 Ground Zero: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury 510
    Philip Weinstein
     
    33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's Native Son and the Great American Novel 525
    Andrew Warnes
     
    34 Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537
    John Carlos Rowe
     
    35 The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March 554
    Ben Siegel
     
    36 The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's Beloved 570
    Valerie Smith
     
    37 A Different Kind of Love Story: Corma