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An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. * Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context * Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works * Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose * Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century * Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context…mehr
An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. * Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context * Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works * Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose * Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century * Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context
G. R. Thompson is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. He has written widely on the topic of American fiction and romanticism, including books and articles on the relation of the romance to the realist tradition, the gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the travel narratives of Herman Melville. He is the editor of various editions, including the Norton Critical Edition of The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. He is the former editor of Poe Studies and ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
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Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism 9 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts 25 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism 41 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds 55 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance 73 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within 91 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism 109 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions 125 9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield 141 10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction" 157 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott 179 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide 195 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility 215 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" 235 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells 261 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers 283 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race 299 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 323 19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History 343 20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain 367 Bibliographical Resources 387 Index 421
Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism 9 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts 25 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism 41 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds 55 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance 73 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within 91 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism 109 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions 125 9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield 141 10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction" 157 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott 179 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide 195 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility 215 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" 235 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells 261 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers 283 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race 299 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 323 19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History 343 20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain 367 Bibliographical Resources 387 Index 421
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