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Author:

Samuels, Shirley.

Title:

Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / Shirley Samuels.

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xvi, 185 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

United States--In literature.
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.
Geschichte 1780-1865.
Roman.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Reading the novel

ISBN:

0631232885 (pbk.)
9780631232889 (pbk.)
0631232877 (cloth)
9780631232872 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748286898

LCCN:

2011032108

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)