Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Shirley Samuels
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004
- Physical Details
-
- xv, 470 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1782684174, 0470999209, 9780470999202, 0470999217, 9780470999219, 0631234225, 1405165111, 9786611312671, 1281312673, 9780631234227, 9781405165112
- OCLC
- ocm53937773, ocn184983759, ocn476169332, ocn437213904
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Shirley Samuels -- PART I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- National narrative and the problem of American nationhood / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Fiction and democracy / Paul Downes -- Democratic fictions / Sandra M. Gustafson -- Engendering American fictions / Martha J. Cutter, Caroline F. Levander -- Race and ethnicity / Robert S. Levine -- Class / Philip Gould -- Sexualities / Valerie Rohy -- Religion / Paul Gutjahr -- Education and polemic / Stephanie Foote -- Marriage and contract / Naomi Morgenstern -- Transatlantic ventures / Wil Verhoeven, Stephen Shapiro -- Other languages, other Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- PART II. FORMS OF FICTION -- Literary histories / Michael Drexler, Ed White -- Breeding and reading: Chesterfieldian civility in the early republic / Christopher Lukasik -- The American gothic / Marianne Noble -- Sensational fiction / Shelley Streeby -- Melodrama and American fiction / Lori Merish -- Delicate boundaries: passing and other "crossings" in fictionalized slave narratives / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson -- Doctors, bodies, and fiction / Stephanie P. Browner -- Law and the American novel / Laura H. Korobkin -- Labor and fiction / Cindy Weinstein -- Words for children / Carol J. Singley -- Dime novels / Colin T. Ramsey, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola -- Reform and antebellum fiction / Chris Castiglia -- PART III. AUTHORS, LOCATIONS, PURPOSES -- The problem of the city / Heather Roberts -- New landscapes / Timothy Sweet -- The gothic meets sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Dana Luciano -- Retold legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy / Philip Barnard -- Captivity and freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" / Eric Gary Anderson -- New England tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the dislocations of Indian land / Bethany Schneider -- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American racialist exceptionalism / Katherine Adams -- Fictions of the South: southern portraits of slavery / Nancy Buffington -- The West / Edward Watts -- The old southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / David Rachels -- James Fenimore Cooper and the invention of the American novel / Wayne Franklin -- The sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick / Stephanie A. Smith -- National narrative and national history / Russ Castronovo