American Fiction 1865 - 1940

List of contents

Author’s Preface Part One: Reconstruction 1865-1900 1 Introduction 2 Mark Twain 3 Realism and Naturalism 4 The Regional Novelists The Midwest: Eggleston, Kirkland, Howe, Garland; The South: Cable, Chopin 5 Impossible Futures and Impossible Pasts 6 Henry James Part Two: ‘The American Century* 1900-1940 7 Introduction 8 Realists, Radicals and the City 9 Realists, Liberals and the Village 10 Epics of America 11 Modernism 12 William Faulkner

Summary

Brian Lee's study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Though the works of these writers have been closely scrutinised by postwar critics in Europe and America, few attempts have yet been made to utilise the new critical approaches and theories in the service of literary history. Brian Lee does so in this book, relating the writers of the period - both major and minor - to its patterns of immense economic, social and intellectual change.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Lee
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138454231
• ISBN: 978-1-138-45423-1
• Series: Longman Literature In English Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form