Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period.

List of contents

Preface vii
 
Acknowledgments xv
 
1 Introduction to the American Novel: From Charles Brockden Brown's Gothic Novels to Caroline Kirkland's Wilderness 1
 
2 Historical Codes in Literary Analysis: The Writing Projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts 23
 
3 Women, Blood, and Contract: Land Claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper 45
 
4 Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales: Mobility and Desire in Catharine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville 67
 
5 Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe 91
 
6 Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott 119
 
Afterword 151
 
Further Reading 165
 
Index 171

About the author

Shirley Samuels is Professor of English and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Romances of the Republic (1996) and Facing America (2004), and editor of The Culture of Sentiment (1992) and The Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865 (2004). She also edited the Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln (2012).

Summary

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period.

Product details

• Authors: S Samuels, Shirley Samuels, Samuels Shirley
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2014
• EAN: 9781118779910
• ISBN: 978-1-118-77991-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Reading the Novel; Reading the Novel
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, Amerikanische Literatur, Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, USA /Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, American Literature, Amerikanische Literatur / 20. Jhd. u. zeitgenössische Werke, 20th Century & Contemporary American Literature