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Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914
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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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Reading the Novel
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Toward the âGreat American Novelâ: Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism
- Chapter 2: Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts
- Chapter 3: Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American âQuietâ Realism
- Chapter 4: The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds
- Chapter 5: Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance
- Chapter 6: Frank Norris: The Beast Within
- Chapter 7: The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism
- Chapter 8: Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions
- Chapter 9: Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield
- Chapter 10: Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and âNew Woman's Fictionâ
- Chapter 11: Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott
- Chapter 12: âAll the Happy Endingsâ: Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide
- Chapter 13: Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility
- Chapter 14: Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and âThe Psychopathology of Everyday Lifeâ
- Chapter 15: Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells
- Chapter 16: The âGilded Ageâ: Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers
- Chapter 17: What Is An American? Regionalism and Race
- Chapter 18: The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices
- Chapter 19: The âDream of a Republicâ: War, Reconstruction, and Future History
- Chapter 20: At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain
- Bibliographical Resources
- Index