LEADER 04821nam 2200757 a 450 001 996211196403316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78268-381-X 010 $a1-280-85083-3 010 $a9786610850839 010 $a1-4051-6505-7 010 $a0-470-99682-X 010 $a1-4051-7831-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000342196 035 $a(EBL)293113 035 $a(OCoLC)437178896 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530372 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12631194 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530372 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11530121 035 $a(PQKB)10027305 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000126047 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139888 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126047 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051034 035 $a(PQKB)10676582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC293113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL293113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10171473 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL85083 035 $a(PPN)191756008 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000342196 100 $a20041221d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA companion to American fiction, 1865-1914$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson 210 $aMalden, MA ;$aOxford $cBlackwell Pub.$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (642 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell companions to literature and culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4051-9553-3 311 $a1-4051-0064-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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 Modernism 327 $a8 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 Culture 327 $a17 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 Century 327 $a27 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; Index 330 $aA Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major au 410 0$aBlackwell companions to literature and culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$vHandbooks, manuals, etc 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism 676 $a813/.409 701 $aLamb$b Robert Paul$f1951-$0950330 701 $aThompson$b Gary Richard$f1937-$0944257 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996211196403316 996 $aA companion to American fiction, 1865-1914$92148690 997 $aUNISA