Reading the American novel, 1780-1865

• Autore: Samuels Shirley
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012
• Disciplina: 813/.209
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century - United States; American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century - United States; National characteristics, American, in literature - History - United States; Social history in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Social psychology in literature; Literature and society; Literature and history; Books and reading; English; Languages & Literatures; American Literature
• Soggetto geografico: United States In literature
• Classificazione: HT 1810
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865
• ISBN: 1-4443-5435-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910841506703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II