A Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Samuels, Shirley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. * Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction * Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity * Covers different forms of fiction, including children's literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration * Considers both canonical and lesser-known authors, including James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe * Treats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470999202
• Artikelnr.: 38194282

Autorenporträt

Shirley Samuels is Professor of English and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Romances of the Republic (1996) and Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004), and the editor of The Culture of Sentiment (1992). She is also currently the section editor of "American Literature before 1865" for the Blackwell online www.literature-compass.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.

Contributor Notes.

Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts.

Part II: Forms of Fiction.

Part III: Authors, Locations, Purposes.

Index

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- Introduction

- Contributor Notes

Part I: Historical and Cultural Contexts

Part II: Forms of Fiction

Part III: Authors, Locations, Purposes

- Index

Rezensionen

"Particularly impressive... Taken together the essays constitute a dense realization of a critically resurgent period, with the historical dimension emphatic throughout."
American Literary Scholarship

"A good resource for those just embarking on the study of American literature. Recommended."
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