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Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914


Reading the American Novel 1865 - 1914


Reading the Novel, Band 6 1. Aufl.

von: G. R. Thompson

30,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 28.07.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444344257
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 462

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An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, <i>Reading the American Novel 1865-1914</i> provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. <ul> <li>Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context </li> <li>Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works </li> <li>Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose</li> <li>Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century</li> <li>Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context</li> </ul>
Preface ix <p>Acknowledgments xv</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>1 Toward the “Great American Novel”: Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism 9</p> <p>2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts 25</p> <p>3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American “Quiet” Realism 41</p> <p>4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds 55</p> <p>5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance 73</p> <p>6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within 91</p> <p>7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism 109</p> <p>8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane’s Impressionist Fictions 125</p> <p>9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield 141</p> <p>10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and “New Woman’s Fiction” 157</p> <p>11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott 179</p> <p>12 “All the Happy Endings”: Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide 195</p> <p>13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility 215</p> <p>14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and “The Psychopathology of Everyday Life” 235</p> <p>15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells 261</p> <p>16 The “Gilded Age”: Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers 283</p> <p>17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race 299</p> <p>18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices 323</p> <p>19 The “Dream of a Republic”: War, Reconstruction, and Future History 343</p> <p>20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain 367</p> <p>Bibliographical Resources 387</p> <p>Index 421</p>
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<b>G. R. Thompson</b> is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. He has written widely on the topic of American fiction and romanticism, including books and articles on the relation of the romance to the realist tradition, the gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the travel narratives of Herman Melville. He is the editor of various editions, including the <i>Norton Critical Edition of The Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe</i>. He is the former editor of <i>Poe Studies</i> and <i>ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance</i>.
An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, <i>Reading the American Novel 1865-1914</i> provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Leading literary scholar G. R. Thompson shares his insights into the fiction of one of the most pivotal periods in American literature, and each chapter offers both a lucid distillation of the key conditions of the historical and cultural contexts and a practical guide for studying literary works.<br /> <br /> <p>An accessible introduction to the literature of the period, this book demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century, framed between two monumental wars. Demonstrating different attitudes toward and representations of contemporary concerns as they appeared in literature, Thompson addresses the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context. Written in clear and accessible prose, with fresh insights and textual analysis, this is an illuminating read for anyone interested in 19th-century and early modern fiction, American literature, and American cultural history.</p>
"Written as a guide to the American novel, 1865-1914, this absorbing volume sums up a lifetime of reading, thinking, and teaching by a formidable scholar-critic. Incisive readings of individual works and illuminating commentary on intellectual and social history make this an indispensable resource, not just for students but for readers of all sorts--including those (like myself) who <i>thought</i> they knew this field fairly well already. The sheer amount of knowledge that G. R. Thompson brings to bear on his subject is prodigious, and his insights into the persistence of romanticism and the romance genre in an era associated with realism, naturalism, and early modernism seemed especially provocative."<br /> —<b>J. Gerald Kennedy</b>, Louisiana State University <p>"With extraordinary skill and exemplary clarity, G. R. Thompson deftly unravels the complex definitional tangles of late 19th-century American fiction to reveal how the dynamic double helix of realism and romance fostered an artistically rich array of hybrid literary forms resistant to simplistic labeling."<br /> —<b>William J. Scheick</b>, University of Texas at Austin</p>

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