Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 /

• Main Author: Samuels, Shirley
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Series: Reading the novel ; 5.
• Subjects: 1700-1899; 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.; American fiction.; Books and reading.; Literature.; Literature and history.; Literature and society.; United States > In literature.; United States.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Introduction to the American Novel
• Historical Codes in Literary Analysis
• Women, Blood, and Contract
• Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales
• Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Afterword
• Further Reading
• Index.
• 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.