1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462212503321

Autore

Samuels Shirley

Titolo

A Companion to American Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : 1780 - 1865

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (488 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to literature and culture

Disciplina

813.309

813/.209

Soggetti

American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

American fiction

American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century

American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

A COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts; 1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood; 2 Fiction and Democracy; 3 Democratic Fictions; 4 Engendering American Fictions; 5 Race and Ethnicity; 6 Class; 7 Sexualities; 8 Religion; 9 Education and Polemic; 10 Marriage and Contract; 11 Transatlantic Ventures; 12 Other Languages, Other Americas; PART II Forms of Fiction; 13 Literary Histories; 14 Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic

15 The American Gothic16 Sensational Fiction; 17 Melodrama and American Fiction; 18 Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other ''Crossings'' in Fictionalized Slave Narratives; 19 Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction; 20 Law and the American Novel; 21 Labor and Fiction; 22 Words for Children; 23 Dime Novels; 24 Reform and Antebellum



Fiction; PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes; 25 The Problem of the City; 26 New Landscapes; 27 The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E. D. E. N. Southworth

28 Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy29 Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's ''Rip Van Winkle''; 30 New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land; 31 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism; 32 Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery; 33 The West; 34 The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris

35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration Consid



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910296439903321

Autore

Antoniazzi Jean-Luc

Titolo

Transmettre et échanger en Roussillon et en Languedoc XVIe-XVIIIe siècle : Sixièmes Journées d'histoire et histoire du droit et des institutions de l'Université de Perpignan Via Domitia / / Gilbert Larguier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Perpignan, : Presses universitaires de Perpignan, 2018

ISBN

2-35412-325-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlancFrançois-Pierre

CantarelJohn

Escard-BugatMyriam

FabreÉric

JuhelChristophe

LarguierGilbert

PercheCaroline

PoujadePatrice

Rebardy-JuliaEmmanuelle

RobertJean-Christophe

SaquéSébastien

Soggetti

History

héritage

Roussillon

Languedoc

succession

histoire du droit

échanges culturels

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Transmettre, échanger : des actes, des manières de faire si quotidiens, si multiformes qu'on n'y prête guère attention. Ces processus de transmission sont omniprésents dans la société moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe



siècle) où une minorité d'individus parvenaient à l'âge adulte, constamment à l'œuvre. Ils concernent autant les biens, les savoirs, les métiers, que les offices publics, l'art, et même des institutions où ils étaient en principe exclus comme à la cour souveraine de justice du Roussillon (le Conseil souverain) créée en 1660.  Étudier les moyens, les stratégies employés par les individus, les familles, les groupes sociaux, pour assurer leur succession, se maintenir dans un métier ou une fonction, informe toujours beaucoup sur une société et une époque, sur les comportements, les sensibilités.  Les études de cas réunies dans ce volume associent les approches d'historiens, d'historiens du droit et des institutions, d'historiens de l'Art ; portent sur le Languedoc, province intégrée depuis longtemps dans le royaume de France, et sur le Roussillon conquis beaucoup plus tard ; permettent des comparaisons suggestives, ce qui confère aux observations et aux conclusions qui peuvent en être tirées une portée plus générale.