1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910137712103321

Autore

Samuels Shirley

Titolo

Reading the American novel, 1780-1865

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012

ISBN

1-4443-5435-3

Collana

Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865

Classificazione

HT 1810

Disciplina

813/.209

Soggetti

American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century - United States

American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - United States

National characteristics, American, in literature - History - United States

Social history in literature

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Social psychology in literature

Literature and society

Literature and history

Books and reading

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N.



Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003598669707536

Autore

Töpffer, Rodolphe

Titolo

Histoire de Monsieur Jabot / notice par Manuela Busino-Maschietto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lausanne : Bibliotheque romande, [1971]

Descrizione fisica

154 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Collana

Bibliotheque romande

Altri autori (Persone)

Busino-Maschietto, Manuelaauthor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Riproduzione del manoscritto con i disegni originali dell'autore

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787806303321

Titolo

Colonial itineraries of contemporary Mexico : literary and cultural inquiries / / edited by Oswaldo Estrada and Anna M. Nogar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : The University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9875-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

860.9/97209051

Soggetti

Mexican literature - 21st century - History and criticism

Historical fiction, Mexican - History and criticism

Colonies in literature

Politics in literature

Motion pictures - Mexico - History - 21st century

Mexico In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book discusses rewritings of the Mexican colonia to question present-day realities of marginality and inequality, imposed political domination, and hybrid subjectivities. Critics examine literature and films produced in and around Mexico since 2000 to broaden our understanding beyond the theories of the new historical novel and upend the notion of the novel as the sole re-creative genre"--