03902nam 2200661 a 450 991013960970332120201130211816.01-283-24052-197866132405211-4443-4427-71-4443-4424-2(CKB)2550000000045339(EBL)819313(OCoLC)759159329(SSID)ssj0000544708(PQKBManifestationID)11355624(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544708(PQKBWorkID)10535691(PQKB)11499261(MiAaPQ)EBC819313(MiAaPQ)EBC7076199(Au-PeEL)EBL7076199(EXLCZ)99255000000004533920110617d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading the American novel 1865-1914 /G.R. Thompson1st ed.Chichester, West Sussex Wiley-Blackwell20121 online resource (454 p.)Reading the novel ;4Description based upon print version of record.1-4443-4425-0 0-631-23406-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Fictions9 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 Voices19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain; Bibliographical Resources; Index"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"--Provided by publisher.Reading the novel ;4.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.813.409LIT004020bisacshThompson Gary Richard1937-944257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139609703321Reading the American novel 1865-19142131629UNINA