The Cambridge History of the American NovelLeonard Cassuto Cambridge University Press, 24 de mar. de 2011 - 1244 páginas 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. |
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General introduction | 1 |
Inventing the American Novel | 15 |
inventing the American novel | 17 |
1 Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel | 22 |
2 Susanna Rowson Hannah Webster Foster and the seduction novel in the early US | 37 |
3 Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic | 51 |
4 The novel in the antebellum book market | 67 |
5 American land American landscape American novels | 88 |
Modernism and Beyond | 615 |
37 Stein Hemingway and American modernisms | 622 |
38 The Great Gatsby and the 1920s | 639 |
39 Philosophy and the American novel | 653 |
40 Steinbeck and the proletarian novel | 671 |
41 The novel mass culture mass media | 686 |
42 Wright Hurston and the direction of the African American novel | 700 |
aesthetics activism and the social order | 718 |
6 Cooper and the idea of the Indian | 103 |
7 The nineteenthcentury historical novel | 117 |
8 Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romance | 135 |
9 Melville and the novel of the sea | 151 |
10 Religion and the nineteenthcentury American novel | 167 |
11 Manhood and the early American novel | 192 |
12 Sentimentalism | 209 |
13 Supernatural novels | 221 |
14 Imagining the South | 236 |
15 Stowe race and the antebellum American novel | 252 |
16 The early African American novel | 267 |
Realism Protest Accommodation | 283 |
the school of Howells | 289 |
18 James pragmatism and the realist ideal | 304 |
19 Theories of the American novel in the age of realism | 322 |
20 The novel in postbellum print culture | 337 |
21 Twain class and the Gilded Age | 365 |
22 Dreiser and the city | 380 |
23 Novels of civic protest | 393 |
24 Novels of American business industry and consumerism | 409 |
25 New Americans and the immigrant novel | 426 |
26 Cather and the regional imagination | 437 |
27 Wharton marriage and the New Woman | 452 |
28 The postbellum race novel | 470 |
29 The African American novel after Reconstruction | 484 |
30 The rise of naturalism | 499 |
31 Imagining the frontier | 515 |
32 Imperialism Orientalism and empire | 537 |
33 The hemispheric novel in the postrevolutionary era | 553 |
34 The womans novel beyond sentimentalism | 571 |
35 Dime novels and the rise of massmarket genres | 586 |
36 Readers and reading groups | 600 |
44 Religion and the twentiethcentury American novel | 732 |
45 Faulkner and the Southern novel | 750 |
46 Law and the American novel | 767 |
47 Twentiethcentury publishing and the rise of the paperback | 781 |
48 The novel of crime mystery and suspense | 798 |
49 US novels and US wars | 813 |
50 Science fiction | 832 |
51 Female genre fiction in the twentieth century | 847 |
52 Childrens novels | 861 |
53 The American novel and the rise of the suburbs | 879 |
54 The Jewish great American novel | 893 |
55 The Beats and the 1960s | 909 |
56 Literary feminisms | 925 |
57 Reimagining genders and sexualities | 941 |
Contemporary Formations | 957 |
58 Postmodern novels | 964 |
59 The nonfiction novel | 986 |
60 Disability and the American novel | 1002 |
61 Model minorities and the minority model the neoliberal novel | 1016 |
62 The American borderlands novel | 1031 |
63 The rise of the Asian American novel | 1046 |
64 Toni Morrison and the postcivil rights African American novel | 1064 |
65 Hemispheric American novels | 1084 |
66 The worlding of the American novel | 1096 |
67 The Native American Tradition | 1107 |
68 Contemporary ecofiction | 1122 |
69 Graphic novels | 1137 |
70 Twentieth and twentyfirstcentury literary communities | 1154 |
71 A history of the future of narrative | 1168 |
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