LEADER 04728nam 22007213u 450 001 9910828177903321 005 20240418062921.0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000163201 035 $a(EBL)350860 035 $a(OCoLC)437213904 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12226286 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656554 035 $a(PQKB)10368051 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC350860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000163201 100 $a20131014d2008|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Companion to American Fiction$b[electronic resource] $e1780 - 1865 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHoboken $cWiley$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (488 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-5891-3 327 $aA 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 327 $a15 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 327 $a28 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 327 $a35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index 330 $aThis Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration Consid 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 606 $aAmerican fiction - 18th century - History and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction - 19th century - History and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$y19th century$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism$y18th century$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 615 4$aAmerican fiction - 18th century - History and criticism. 615 4$aAmerican fiction - 19th century - History and criticism. 615 4$aAmerican fiction. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 615 7$aAmerican Literature 676 $a813.309 676 $a813/.209 700 $aSamuels$b Shirley$0857340 702 $aSamuels$b Shirley 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828177903321 996 $aA Companion to American Fiction$91914288 997 $aUNINA