Reading the American novel 1865-1914 / / G.R. Thompson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910139609703321
• Autore: Thompson Gary Richard <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-24052-1; 9786613240521; 1-4443-4427-7; 1-4443-4424-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (454 p.)
• Collana: Reading the novel ; ; 4
• Classificazione: LIT004020
• Disciplina: 813.409
• Soggetti: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Reading the American Novel 1865-1914; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism; 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts; 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism; 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds; 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance; 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within; 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism; 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions; 9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction"; 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott; 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide; 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility; 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"; 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells; 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers; 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race; 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices; 19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future ; History20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain; Bibliographical Resources; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context"--