04823nam 2200757 a 450 991014328190332120200520144314.01-78268-381-X1-280-85083-397866108508391-4051-6505-70-470-99682-X1-4051-7831-0(CKB)1000000000342196(EBL)293113(OCoLC)437178896(SSID)ssj0001530372(PQKBManifestationID)12631194(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530372(PQKBWorkID)11530121(PQKB)10027305(SSID)ssj0000126047(PQKBManifestationID)11139888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126047(PQKBWorkID)10051034(PQKB)10676582(MiAaPQ)EBC293113(Au-PeEL)EBL293113(CaPaEBR)ebr10171473(CaONFJC)MIL85083(PPN)191756008(EXLCZ)99100000000034219620041221d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to American fiction, 1865-1914[electronic resource] /edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. ThompsonMalden, MA ;Oxford Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (642 p.)Blackwell companions to literature and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-9553-3 1-4051-0064-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' Introduction; PART I Historical Traditions and Genres; 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism; 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition; 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865...1900; 4 Morality, Modernity, and ''Malarial Restlessness'':; 5 American Literary Naturalism; 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits; 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865...1914PART II Contexts and Themes; 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing; 10 ''The Frontier Story'': The Violence of Literary History; 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance; 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus; 13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865...1914; 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives; 15 Fiction's Many Cities; 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class18 Ethnic Realism; 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative; 20 Writing in the ''Vulgar Tongue'': Law and American Narrative; 21 Planning Utopia; 22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865...1914; PART III Major Authors; 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott; 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain; 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion; 26 Henry James in a New Century27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane; 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal; IndexA Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major auBlackwell companions to literature and culture.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcAmerican fictionHistory and criticismAmerican fictionHistory and criticism813/.409Lamb Robert Paul1951-950330Thompson Gary Richard1937-944257MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143281903321A companion to American fiction, 1865-19142148690UNINA