| Description |
xxvi, 1244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the multi-ethnic, multi-media culture of the present day. In a set of original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world, the volume extends important critical debates and frames new ones. Offering new views of American classics, it also breaks new ground to show the role of popular genres - such as science fiction and mystery novels - in the creation of the literary tradition. One of the original features of this book is the dialogue between the essays, highlighting cross-currents between authors and their works as well as across historical periods. While offering a narrative of the development of the genre, the History reflects the multiple methodologies that have informed readings of the American novel and will change the way scholars and readers think about American literary history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1182-1203) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Added Author |
Cassuto, Leonard, 1960-
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| ISBN |
9780521899079 hardback |
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0521899079 hardback |
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