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Title:

The American novel to 1870 / edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 640 pages ; 26 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Literature and society--United States--History--18th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
American literature--European influences.
Social conflict in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.

Other Authors:

Kennedy, J. Gerald, editor.
Person, Leland S., editor.
Parrinder, Patrick, 1944- editor.
Arac, Jonathan, 1945- editor.

Notes:

"General editor: Patrick Parrinder; Consulting editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-615) and indexes.

Contents:

Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel. America's Europe : Irving, Poe, and the foreign subject / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Part 1: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States. Before the American novel / Betsy Erkkila ; The sentimental novel and the seductions of postcolonial imitation / Karen A. Weyler ; Complementary strangers : Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, and the early American sentimental Gothic / Marion Rust ; Trends and patterns in the US novel, 1800-1820 / Ed White ; Unsettling novels of the early republic / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Part 2: The Novel and American Nation-building. Walter Scott and the American historical novel / Fiona Robertson ; Revolutionary novels and the problem of literary nationalism / Joseph J. Letter ; Frontier novels, border wars, and Indian removal / Dana D. Nelson ; America's Europe : Irving, Poe, and the foreign subject / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel.
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / David S. Reynolds -- The perils of authorship : literary property and nineteenth-century American fiction / Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith L. McGill ; Periodicals and the novel / Patricia Okker ; Cheap sensation : pamphlet potboilers and Beadle's dime novels / Shelley Streeby -- Part 5: Major Novels. James Fenimore Cooper : beyond Leather-Stocking / Wayne Franklin ; Catharine Maria Sedgwick : domestic and national narratives / James L. Machor ; Hawthorne and the historical romance / Larry J. Reynolds ; Herman Melville / Jonathan Arac ; Harriet Beecher Stowe and the antislavery cause / John Ernest -- Part 5: Major Novels. The last of the Mohicans : race to citizenship / Leland S. Person ; The scarlet letter / Monika Elbert ; Moby-Dick and globalization / John Carlos Rowe ; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / David S. Reynolds --
Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres. Surviving national disunion : Civil War novels of the 1860s / Paul Christian Jones. The Transamerican novel / Anna Brickhouse ; Slavery, abolitionism, and the African American novel / Ivy G. Wilson ; Ethnic novels and the construction of the multicultural nation to 1870 / John Lowe ; Women's novels and the gendering of genius / Ren©♭e Bergland ; Male hybrids in classic American fiction / David Leverenz ; Studying nature in the antebellum novel / Timothy Sweet ; Novels of faith and doubt in a changing culture / Caroline Levander -- Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres. Temperance novels and moral reform / Debra J. Rosenthal ; Novels of travel and exploration / Gretchen Murphy ; The city mystery novel / Scott Peeples ; Surviving national disunion : Civil War novels of the 1860s / Paul Christian Jones.

Summary:

"The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new twelve-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic."

Series:

The Oxford history of the novel in English ; volume five

ISBN:

0195385357
9780195385359

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862041442

LCCN:

2013033712

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)