A Companion to the American Novel (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bendixen, Alfred

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Produktbeschreibung

Featuring 37 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 to this popular literary form currently available * Features 37 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholars * Includes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118220351
• Artikelnr.: 37757715

Autorenporträt

Alfred Bendixen teaches American literature at Princeton University, USA, and is the founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His books include The Cambridge History of American Poetry (co-edited with Stephen Burt, 2014), A Companion to the American Short Story (co-edited with James Nagel, Wiley Blackwell, 2010), Ihe Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (co-edited with Judith Hamera, 2009), Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (co-edited with Annette Zilversmit, 1992), 'lhe Amber Gods and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1989), an edition of the composite novel The Whole Family (1986), and Haunted Women (1985).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi A Chronology of
the American Novel xxii Part I: Historical Developments 1 1 The Development
of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3 Alfred Bendixen 2 The
American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19 Maria
Karafilis 3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860-1920) 42
Jeanne Campbell Reesman 4 Modernism and the American Novel 60 Peter L. Hays
5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76 Alfred
Bendixen 6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945-1970 90
Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin 7 The Novel in a Changing America:
Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970-Present) 109 Martha J. Cutter Part
II: Genres and Traditions 127 8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The
Gothic Novel in the United States 129 Charles L. Crow 9 The American
Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to
Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147 Emily Miller Budick
10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United
States 170 Marianne Noble 11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American
Political Novel 187 Chip Rhodes 12 The American War Novel Tradition and the
Individual Soldier 206 James H. Meredith 13 From the Sublime to the
Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218 Judith Yaross Lee 14
Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241 Derek Parker Royal 15
Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel 259 Juan J. Alonzo 16 African
American Traditions and the American Novel 274 Melvin Donalson 17 The
American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291 Leonard Cassuto 18 O
Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309 Eric S. Rabkin
19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and
the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323 Jean Pfaelzer 20
Queer Theory and the American Novel 342 Deborah Carlin 21 The American
Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel's Shadow 357 Robert M. Luscher Part
III: Major Texts 373 22 The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter
375 Monika Elbert 23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's Moby-Dick 394
Wyn Kelley 24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
408 Susan Belasco 25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing
Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady 422 Greg W. Zacharias 26 Mark Twain's
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace 443
Michael J. Kiskis 27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin's The Awakening 454 Emily
Toth 28 Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of
Courage 465 James Nagel 29 Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth 475
Kathy Fedorko 30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun
Also Rises 488 James Nagel 31 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Myth of
the Land 499 Richard Lehan 32 Ground Zero: Faulkner's The Sound and the
Fury 510 Philip Weinstein 33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's Native Son
and the Great American Novel 525 Andrew Warnes 34 Our Invisible Man: The
Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537 John Carlos Rowe 35 The Visionary
Exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March 554 Ben Siegel 36
The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's Beloved 570 Valerie Smith 37 A
Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's The Road 582 Olivia Carr
Edenfield Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel 598 Index
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