Reading the American novel 1865-1914 / / G.R. Thompson |
Autore | Thompson Gary Richard <1937-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.409 |
Collana | Reading the novel |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-24052-1
9786613240521 1-4443-4427-7 1-4443-4424-2 |
Classificazione | LIT004020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Reading the American Novel 1865-1914; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism; 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts; 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism; 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds; 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance; 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within; 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism; 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions
9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction"; 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott; 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide; 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility; 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"; 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells; 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers; 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race; 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain; Bibliographical Resources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139609703321 |
Thompson Gary Richard <1937-> | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel 1865-1914 / / G. R. Thompson |
Autore | Thompson Gary Richard <1937-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (454 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.409 |
Collana | Reading the novel |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-283-24052-1
9786613240521 1-4443-4427-7 1-4443-4424-2 |
Classificazione | LIT004020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Reading the American Novel 1865-1914; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism; 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts; 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism; 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds; 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance; 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within; 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism; 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions
9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction"; 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott; 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide; 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility; 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"; 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells; 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers; 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race; 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain; Bibliographical Resources; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830513503321 |
Thompson Gary Richard <1937-> | ||
Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2012] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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