|  | Lamb, Robert Paul / Thompson, G. R. (Hrsg.)
A Companion to American Fiction 1865 - 1914
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
 1. Auflage November 2005
192,- Euro
2005. 640 Seiten, Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-4051-0064-9 - John Wiley & Sons
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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.
* An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective
* Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors
* Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches
* Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction
Aus dem Inhalt
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xviii
Editors' Introduction 1
Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson
PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13
1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15
Nancy Glazener
2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35
William J. Scheick
3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900 53
Gregg Camfield
4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77
Winfried Fluck
5 American Literary Naturalism 96
Christophe Den Tandt
6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119
June Howard
7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140
Linda Wagner-Martin
8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865-1914 149
J. Gerald Kennedy
PART II Contexts and Themes 175
9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177
S. K. Robisch
10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201
Christine Bold
11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222
Gerald Vizenor
12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240
Kathleen Diffley
13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914 260
Grace Farrell
14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
15 Fiction's Many Cities 296
Sidney H. Bremer
16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318
Sarah Way Sherman
17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340
Christopher P. Wilson
18 Ethnic Realism 356
Robert M. Dowling
19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377
Bert Bender
20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395
William E. Moddelmog
21 Planning Utopia 411
Thomas Peyser
22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914 428
Gwen Athene Tarbox
PART III Major Authors 449
23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451
John Matteson
24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468
Robert Paul Lamb
25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499
Michael Anesko
26 Henry James in a New Century 518
John Carlos Rowe
27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536
Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt
28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557
William E. Cain
29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572
Clare Virginia Eby
Index 587
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