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The Cambridge history of the American novel
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Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
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Merrimack College - Stacks (Lower Level)
PS371 .C36 2011
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PS371 .C36 2011
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Pt.1 Inventing the American novel : Introduction : inventing the American novel / Benjamin Reiss
Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel / Paul Giles
Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novel in the early US / Anna Mae Duane
Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic / Bryan Waterman
The novel in the antebellum book market / Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray
American land, American landscape, American novels / Timothy Sweet
Cooper and the idea of the Indian / Sandra M. Gustafson
The nineteenth-century historical novel / Winfried Fluck
Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance / Jonathan Arac
Melville and the novel of the sea / Hester Blum
Religion and the nineteenth-century American novel / Gregory S. Jackson
Manhood and the early American novel / Milette Shamir
Sentimentalism / Cindy Weinstein
Supernatural novels / Elizabeth Young
Imagining the South / Jennifer Rae Greeson
Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel / John Ernest
The early African American novel / Robert S. Levine
Pt.2 Realism, protest, accommodation : Introduction : realism, protest, accommodation / Clare Virginia Eby
Realism and radicalism : the school of Howells / Michael A. Elliott
James, pragmatism, and the realist ideal / Carrie Tirado Bramen
Theories of the American novel in the age of realism / Lawrence Buell
The novel in postbellum print culture / Nancy Glazener
Twain, class, and the Gilded age / Andrew Lawson
Dreiser and the city / Jude Davies
Novels of civic protest / Cecelia Tichi
Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism / David A. Zimmerman
New Americans and the immigrant novel / Tim Prchal
Cather and the regional imagination / Tom Lutz
Wharton, marriage, and the new woman / Jennifer L. Fleissner
The postbellum race novel / Robert F. Reid-Pharr
The African American novel after reconstruction / Barbara McCaskill
The rise of naturalism / Donna Campbell
Imagining the frontier / Stephanie Le Menager
Imperialism, Orientalism, and empire / Russ Castronovo
The hemispheric novel in the post-revolutionary era / Gretchen Murphy
The woman's novel beyond sentimentalism / Elizabeth Nolan
Dime novels and the rise of mass-market genres / Shelley Streeby
Readers and reading groups / Barbara Hochman.
Pt.3 Modernism and beyond : Introduction : modernism and beyond / Clare Virginia Eby
Stein, Hemingway, and American modernisms / Peter Nicholls
The Great Gatsby and the 1920s / Kirk Curnutt
Philosophy and the American novel / Robert Chodat
Steinbeck and the proletarian novel / Alan M. Wald
The novel, mass culture, mass media / Mark McGurl
Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel / Valerie Babb
Ellison and Baldwin : aesthetics, activism, and the social order / Lovalerie King
Religion and the twentieth-century American novel / Amy Hungerford
Faulkner and the Southern novel / Candace Waid
Law and the American novel / Gregg Crane
Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback / James L.W. West III
The novel of crime, mystery, and supsense / Sean McCann
US novels and US wars / John Carlos Rowe
Science fiction / Priscilla Wald
Female genre fiction in the twentieth century / Pamela Regis
Children's novels / Julia Mickenberg
The American novel and the rise of the suburbs / Catherine Jurca
The Jewish great American novel / Andrew Horberek
The Beats and the 1960s / Robert Faggen
Literary feminisms / Maria Farland
Reimagining genders and sexualities / Elizabeth Freeman
Pt.4 Contemporary formations : Introduction : contemporary formations / Benjamin Reiss
Postmodern novels / Ursula K. Heise
The nonfiction novel / David Schmid
Disability and the American novel / David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
Model minorities and the minority model : the neoliberal novel / Walter Benn Michaels
The American borderlands novel / Ramón Saldívar
The rise of the Asian American novel / Susan Koshy
Toni Morrison and the post-civil rights African American novel / Michael Hill
Hemispheric American novels / Rodrigo Lazo
The worlding of the American novel / Bruce Robbins
The Native American tradition / Sean Kicummah Teuton
Contemporary ecofiction / Jonathan Levin
Graphic novels / Jan Baetens
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century literary communities / Denel Rehberg Sedo
A history of the future of narrative / Robert Coover.
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