A companion to American fiction, 1865-1914 / / edited by Robert Paul Lamb and G.R. Thompson

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (642 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.409
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
• Altri autori: LambRobert Paul <1951-> ThompsonGary Richard <1937->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Modernism ; 8 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 ; 17 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 ; 27 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to American fiction, 1865-1914
• ISBN: 1-78268-381-X; 1-280-85083-3; 9786610850839; 1-4051-6505-7; 0-470-99682-X; 1-4051-7831-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910143281903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to literature and culture.