Reading the American novel 1865-1914 /

• Main Author: Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Reading the novel ; 4
• Subjects: 1800-1999; American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.; American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.; LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.; American fiction.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

"An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fr...

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Toward the ₃Great American Novel₄
• Of Realism and Reality
• Dramas of the Broken Teacup
• The Nature of Naturalism
• Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance
• Frank Norris
• The Rocking Horse Winners
• Subjective Realism
• Impressions of War
• Sense and Sensibility
• Domestic Feminism
• ₃All the Happy Endings₄
• Vulgarians at the Gate
• Tea-Table as Jungle
• Economies of Pain
• The ₃Gilded Age₄
• What Is An American?
• The Territory Ahead
• The ₃Dream of a Republic₄
• At the Modernist Margin
• Bibliographical Resources
• Index.