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Title:

A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 / edited by Shirley Samuels.

Publisher:

Blackwell Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2007, c2004

Description:

xv, 470 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
American fiction--18th century--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Roman américain--19e siècle--Histoire et critique--Guides, manuels, etc.
Roman américain--18e siècle--Histoire et critique--Guides, manuels, etc.
Fictie.
Amerikaans.

Other Authors:

Samuels, Shirley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

PART III. AUTHORS, LOCATIONS, PURPOSES -- Russ Castronovo. PART I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- National narrative and national history / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Fiction and democracy / Paul Downes -- Democratic fictions / Sandra M. Gustafson -- Engendering American fictions / Martha J. Cutter, Caroline F. Levander -- Race and ethnicity / Robert S. Levine -- Class / Philip Gould -- Sexualities / Valerie Rohy -- Religion / Paul Gutjahr -- Education and polemic / Stephanie Foote -- Marriage and contract / Naomi Morgenstern -- Transatlantic ventures / Wil Verhoeven, Stephen Shapiro -- Other languages, other Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- PART II. FORMS OF FICTION -- Literary histories / Michael Drexler, Ed White -- Breeding and reading: Chesterfieldian civility in the early republic / Christopher Lukasik -- The American gothic / Marianne Noble -- Sensational fiction / Shelley Streeby -- Melodrama and American fiction / Lori Merish -- Delicate boundaries: passing and other "crossings" in fictionalized slave narratives / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- Doctors, bodies, and fiction / Stephanie P. Browner -- Law and the American novel / Laura H. Korobkin -- Labor and fiction / Cindy Weinstein -- Words for children / Carol J. Singley -- Dime novels / Colin T. Ramsey, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Reform and antebellum fiction / Chris Castiglia -- PART III. AUTHORS, LOCATIONS, PURPOSES -- The problem of the city / Heather Roberts -- New landscapes / Timothy Sweet -- The gothic meets sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Dana Luciano -- Retold legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy / Philip Barnard -- Captivity and freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" / Eric Gary Anderson -- New England tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the dislocations of Indian land / Bethany Schneider -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American racialist exceptionalism / Katherine Adams -- Fictions of the South: southern portraits of slavery / Nancy Buffington -- The West / Edward Watts -- The old southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / David Rachels -- James Fenimore Cooper and the invention of the American novel / Wayne Franklin -- The sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick / Stephanie A. Smith -- National narrative and national history / Russ Castronovo.

Series:

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;

ISBN:

9780631234227 (alk. paper)
0631234225 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53937773

LCCN:

2003026891

Locations:

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

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)