A Companion to American Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : 1780 - 1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism American fiction American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A 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
15 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 28 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 35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462212503321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Companion to American Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : 1780 - 1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism American fiction American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A 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
15 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 28 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 35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790181503321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A Companion to American Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : 1780 - 1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism American fiction American fiction - History and criticism - 19th century American fiction - History and criticism - 18th century English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
A 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
15 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 28 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 35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick; 37 National Narrative and National History; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828177903321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shirley Samuels |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SamuelsShirley |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-78268-417-4
1-281-31267-3 9786611312671 1-4051-6511-1 0-470-99921-7 0-470-99920-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts; PART II Forms of Fiction; PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145580103321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shirley Samuels |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SamuelsShirley |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-78268-417-4
1-281-31267-3 9786611312671 1-4051-6511-1 0-470-99921-7 0-470-99920-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts; PART II Forms of Fiction; PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996201982503316 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Shirley Samuels |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (488 p.) |
Disciplina |
813.309
813/.209 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SamuelsShirley |
Collana | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism |
ISBN |
1-78268-417-4
1-281-31267-3 9786611312671 1-4051-6511-1 0-470-99921-7 0-470-99920-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A COMPANION TO AMERICAN FICTION; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical and Cultural Contexts; PART II Forms of Fiction; PART III Authors, Locations, Purposes; Index; |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910877697603321 |
Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
Disciplina | 813/.209 |
Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
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 |
ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
Classificazione | HT 1810 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910137712103321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
Disciplina | 813/.209 |
Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
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 |
ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
Classificazione | HT 1810 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829910403321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / / Shirley Samuels |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (203 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.209 |
Collana | Reading the novel |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism
American fiction - 18th century - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Social history in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Social psychology in literature Literature and society - United States Literature and history - United States Books and reading - United States - History |
ISBN | 1-118-78632-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction to the American Novel; 2 Historical Codes in Literary Analysis; 3 Women, Blood, and Contract; 4 Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales; 5 Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe; 6 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; Afterword; Further Reading; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827425203321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
Autore | Samuels Shirley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 |
Disciplina | 813/.209 |
Collana | Reading the novel Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 |
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 |
ISBN | 1-4443-5435-3 |
Classificazione | HT 1810 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910876788903321 |
Samuels Shirley | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : Wiley Blackwell, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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