A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lamb, Robert Paul; Thompson, G. R.

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers. * An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective * Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors * Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches * Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405178310
• Artikelnr.: 38280730

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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

Index 587

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"All praise to Lamb and Thompson ... Comprehensive, wellwritten and carefully edited ... Essential."
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"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."
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