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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred Bendixen |
| ISBN: | 9781405101196 1405101199 |
| OCLC Number: | 759491763 |
| Description: | lxx, 633 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | The development of the American novel: The transformations of genre / Alfred Bendixen -- The American novel: Beginnings through the American renaissance / Maria Karafilis -- The American novel: Realism and naturalism (1860-1920) / Jeanne Campbell Reesman -- Modernism and the American novel / Peter L. Hays -- Beyond modernism: The American novel between the world wars / Alfred Benedixen -- The Cold War novel: The American novel between 1945-1970 / Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin -- The novel in a changing America: Multiculturalism and other issues (1970-Present) / Martha J. Cutler -- Fear, ambiguity, and transgression: The gothic novel in the United States / Charles L. Crow -- The American historical romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow / Emily Miller Budick -- Making this whole national feel: The sentimental novel in the United States / Marianne Noble -- Social protest, reform, and the American political novel / Chip Rhodes -- The American war novel tradition and the individual solder / James H. Meredith -- From the sublime to the ridiculous: Comic traditions in the American novel / Judith Yaross Lee -- Plotting a way home: The Jewish American novel / Derek Parker Royal -- Chicano/a traditions in the American novel / Juan J. Alonzo -- African American traditions and the American novel / Melvin Donalson -- The American novel of mystery, crime, and detection / Leonard Cassuto -- O brave new worlds: Science fiction and the American novel / Eric S. Rabkin -- Dreaming of a White future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the origins of the utopian novel in the United States / Jean Pfaelzer -- Queer theory and the American novel / Deborah Carlin -- The American short-story cycle: Out from the novel's shadow / Robert M. Luscher -- The woman's law in Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Monika Elbert -- Writ in water: The books of Melville's Moby-Dick / Wyn Kelley -- Wonder of wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / Susan Belasco -- Citational strategies and literary traditions: Placing Henry James's The portrait of a lady / Greg W. Zacharias -- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A child's search for comfort and peace / Michael J. Kiskis -- What women want: Kate Chopin's The awakening / Emily Toth -- Private Fleming's various battles: Stephen Crane's The red badge of courage / James Nagel -- Lily's story: Edith Wharton's House of mirth / Kathy Fedorko -- The confessional narration of Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises / James Nagel -- Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby and the myth of the land / Richard Lehan -- Ground zero: Faulkner's The sound and the fury / Philip Weinstein -- A bigger vision: Richard Wright's Native son and the great American novel / Andrew Warnes -- Our Invisible man: The aesthetic genealogy of US diversity / John Carlos Rowe -- The visionary exuberance of Saul Bellow's The adventures of Augie March / Ben Siegel -- The flesh and the word: Toni Morrison's Beloved / Valerie Smith -- Adifferent kind of love story: Cormac McCarthy's The road / Olivia Carr Edenfield. |
| Series Title: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture |
| Responsibility: | edited by Alfred Bendixen. |
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