Title:
A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 / edited by Shirley Samuels.
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Main Entry:
Samuels, Shirley.
Publisher:
Blackwell Pub.,
Publication Date:
2004.
Publication Place:
Malden, MA :
ISBN:
0631234225 (alk. paper)
Subject:
American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Series:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
Contents:
National narrative and the problem of American nationhood / Fiction and democracy / Democratic fictions / Engendering American fictions / Race and ethnicity / Class / Sexualities / Religion / Education and polemic / Marriage and contract / Transatlantic ventures / Other languages, other Americas / Literary histories / Breeding and reading: Chesterfieldian civility in the early republic / The American gothic / Sensational fiction / Melodrama and American fiction / Delicate boundaries: passing and other "crossings" in Fictionalized slave narratives / Doctors, bodies, and fiction / Law and the American novel / Labor and fiction / Words for children / Dime novels / Reform and antebellum fiction / The problem of the city / New landscapes / The gothic meets sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Retold legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy / Captivity and freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" / New England tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the dislocations of Indian land / Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American racialist exceptionalism / Fictions of the South: southern portraits of slavery / The West / The old southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / James Fenimore Cooper and the invention of the American novel / The sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick / National narrative and national history /
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