A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions on the romance, sentimentalism,…mehr
A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions on the romance, sentimentalism, early modernism, African American and Native American narratives, women's fiction, class, ethnicity, and the short story. A significant feature of the book is its inclusion of chapters on both frontier and urban narratives, Civil War literature, Darwin's influence on fiction, children's literature, consumer culture, law and narrative, utopian fiction, and ecological literature and ecocriticism. Contributors present lucid syntheses of the best criticism available on their topics and, at the same time, offer original perspectives of their own. This Companion is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature from this important period.
Frank Lamb is an industrial automation consultant and advanced PLC programming trainer with more than 30 years of experience in controls and machine automation. From 1996 to 2006, Frank owned and operated Automation Consulting Services, Inc. (ACS), a panel building and machine integration company in Knoxville, TN. From 2006 to 2011, he worked as a senior-level project engineer for Wright Industries in Nashville, TN, where he led the design and implementation of large, complex systems and custom machines for multinational corporations and government agencies. In December 2011, Frank re-established Automation Consulting, LLC with a new vision: to use his experience in the field of industrial automation - from electrical, mechanical and controls engineering to project management, training, and machine documentation - to provide expert consulting and training services to manufacturers. Frank is the president and owner of Automation Consulting, LLC in Nashville and works as Lead Trainer for Automation NTH in LaVergne, Tennessee. He is the author of several books including Industrial Automation: Hands On, published by McGraw-Hill Professional in 2013, Advanced PLC Hardware and Programming, published by Automation Consulting, LLC in 2019, and Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Industrial Automation, published by Automation Consulting, LLC in 2022. He is a United States Air Force veteran, received his BSEE in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tennessee, and has a Green Belt in Lean Manufacturing/Six Sigma from Purdue University.
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List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xviii
Editors' Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson
PART I Historical Traditions and Genres13
1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism15 Nancy Glazener
2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick
3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-190053 Gregg Camfield
4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": AmericanRealism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck
5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt
6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, GlobalCircuits 119 June Howard
7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin
8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914149 J. Gerald Kennedy
PART II Contexts and Themes 175
9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch
10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History201 Christine Bold
11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance222 Gerald Vizenor
12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tomto Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley
13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914260 Grace Farrell
14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
15 Fiction's Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer
16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives andConsumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman
17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class340 Christopher P. Wilson
18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling
19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender
20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative395 William E. Moddelmog
21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser
22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism,1865-1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox
PART III Major Authors 449
23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind ofLouisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson
24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of MarkTwain 468 Robert Paul Lamb
25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection,Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko
26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe
27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of EdithWharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt
28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane557 William E. Cain
29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby
Editors' Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson
PART I Historical Traditions and Genres13
1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism15 Nancy Glazener
2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick
3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-190053 Gregg Camfield
4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": AmericanRealism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck
5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt
6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, GlobalCircuits 119 June Howard
7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin
8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914149 J. Gerald Kennedy
PART II Contexts and Themes 175
9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch
10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History201 Christine Bold
11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance222 Gerald Vizenor
12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tomto Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley
13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914260 Grace Farrell
14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
15 Fiction's Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer
16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives andConsumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman
17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class340 Christopher P. Wilson
18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling
19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender
20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative395 William E. Moddelmog
21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser
22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism,1865-1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox
PART III Major Authors 449
23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind ofLouisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson
24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of MarkTwain 468 Robert Paul Lamb
25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection,Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko
26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe
27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of EdithWharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt
28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane557 William E. Cain
29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby
Index 587
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"All praise to Lamb and Thompson ... Comprehensive, wellwritten and carefully edited ... Essential." Choice
"The editors have intended the Companion to be anintroduction to the field and a reference tool for 'advancedundergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and generalintellectuals'. In this they have succeeded admirably." Reference Reviews
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