A companion to the American novel /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bendixen, Alfred
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Σειρά: Blackwell companions to literature and culture
• Θέματα: American fiction > History and criticism.; National characteristics, American, in literature.; Literature and society > United States.; LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.; American fiction.; Literature and society.; United States.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Featuring 38 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day. Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Front Matter
• Historical Developments. The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre / Alfred Bendixen
• The American Novel: Beginnings through the American Renaissance / Maria Karafilis
• The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860₆1920) / Jeanne Campbell Reesman
• Modernism and the American Novel / Peter L Hays
• Beyond Modernism: The American Novel between the World Wars / Alfred Bendixen
• The Cold War Novel: The American Novel between 1945₆1970 / Sharon Becker, Wendy Martin
• The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and other Issues (1970-Present) / Martha J Cutter
• Genres and Traditions. Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States / Charles L Crow
• The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E.L. Doctorow / Emily Miller Budick
• Making this whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States / Marianne Noble
• Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel / Chip Rhodes
• The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier / James H Meredith
• From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel / Judith Yaross Lee
• Plotting a way Home: The Jewish American Novel / Derek Parker Royal
• Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel / Juan J Alonzo
• African American Traditions and the American Novel / Melvin Donalson
• The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection / Leonard Cassuto
• O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel / Eric S Rabkin
• Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States / Jean Pfaelzer
• Queer Theory and the American Novel / Deborah Carlin
• The American Short-Story Cycle: Out from the Novel's Shadow / Robert M Luscher
• Major Texts. The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's / Monika Elbert
• Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's / Wyn Kelley
• Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's / Susan Belasco
• Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's / Greg W Zacharias
• Mark Twain's : A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace / Michael J Kiskis
• What Women want: Kate Chopin's / Emily Toth
• Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's / James Nagel
• Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's / Kathy Fedorko
• The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's / James Nagel
• Fitzgerald's and the Myth of the Land / Richard Lehan
• Ground Zero: Faulkner's / Philip Weinstein
• A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's and the Great American Novel / Andrew Warnes
• Our : The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity / John Carlos Rowe
• The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's / Ben Siegel
• The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's / Valerie Smith
• A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's / Olivia Carr Edenfield
• Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel
• Index.