A Companion to the American Novel (eBook, PDF)

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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: 21. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118220399
• Artikelnr.: 38240629

Autorenporträt

Alfred Bendixen is Professor of English at Texas A & M University, and Founder and Executive Director of the American Literature Association. His books include Haunted Women (1985), an edition of the composite novel, The Whole Family (1986), The Amber Gods and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1989), Edith Wharton: New Critical Essays (1992), A Companion to the American Short Story (co-edited with James Nagel, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and The Cambridge Companion to American Travel Writing (co-edited with Judith Hamera, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Preface Part I: Historical Developments 1. The
Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre Alfred
Bendixen 2. The American Novel: Beginnings through the American Renaissance
Maria Karafilis 3. The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860-1920)
Jeanne Campbell Reesman 4. Modernism and American Literature (1915-1945)
Peter L. Hays 5. The American Novel: Beyond Modernism (1915-1945) Alfred
Bendixen 6. The Cold War Novel: The American Novel (1945-1970) Sharon
Becker and Wendy Martin 7. The Novel in a Changing America:
Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970- present) Martha J. Cutter 8. A
Chronology of the American Novel Alfred Bendixen Part II: Genres and
Traditions 9. Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the
United States Charles L. Crow 10. The American Historical Romance: From
James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise
Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow Emily Miller Budick 11. Making this Whole
Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States Marianne Noble 12.
Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel Chip Rhodes 13.
The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier James H.
Meredith 14. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the
American Novel Judith Yaross Lee 15. Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish
American Novel Derek Parker Royal 16. Chicano/a Traditions in the American
Novel Juan J. Alonzo 17. African American Traditions and the American Novel
Melvin Donalson 18. The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection
Leonard Cassuto 19. O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American
Novel Eric S. Rabkin 20. Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane,
Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States
Jean Pfaelzer 21. Queer Theory and the American Novel Deborah Carlin 22.
The American Short-Story Cycle: Out from the Novel's Shadow Robert M.
Luscher 23. Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel Alfred
Bendixen Part III: Major Texts 24. The Woman's Law in Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter Monika Elbert 25. Writ in Water: The Books of Melville's
Moby-Dick Wyn Kelley 26. Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin Susan Belasco 27. Citational Strategies and Literary
Traditions: Placing Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady Greg W. Zacharias
28. A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace: Mark Twain's Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn Michael J. Kiskis 29. What Women Want: Kate Chopin's The
Awakening Emily Toth 30. Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's
The Red Badge of Courage James Nagel 31. Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's
House of Mirth Kathy Fedorko 32. Jim Burden and the World: Willa Cather's
My Antonia Alfred Bendixen 33. The Confessional Narration of Ernest
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises James Nagel 34. Fitzgerald's The Great
Gatsby and the Myth of the Land Richard Lehan 35. Ground Zero: Faulkner's
The Sound and the Fury Philip M. Weinstein 36. A Bigger Vision: Richard
Wright's Native Son and the Great American Novel Andrew Warnes 37. Our
Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. Diversity John Carlos Rowe
38. The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March
Ben Siegel 39. The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's Beloved Valerie
Smith 40. A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's The Road Olivia
Carr Edenfield