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Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914

Name: Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914
Author: G. R. Thompson

G. R. Thompson,

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Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914

G. R. Thompson,

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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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Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Year

2011

ISBN

9781444344257

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

North American Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Cover
Reading the Novel
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Toward the ‘Great American Novel’: 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 ‘Quiet’ 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 ‘New Woman's Fiction’
Chapter 11: Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott
Chapter 12: ‘All the Happy Endings’: 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 ‘The Psychopathology of Everyday Life’
Chapter 15: Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells
Chapter 16: The ‘Gilded Age’: 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 ‘Dream of a Republic’: War, Reconstruction, and Future History
Chapter 20: At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain
Bibliographical Resources
Index