Summary
The first history of America's major literary form offers new views of our literary history and a sophisticated examination of areas of fiction that have only recently begun to receive attention.
Contents
The early American novel / Jeffrey Rubin-DorskyAutobiography and the early novel / Nellie McKay
The book marketplace I / Michael T. Gilmore
The romance / Terence Martin
Romance and race / Joan Dayan
Domesticity and fiction / Lora Romero
Fiction and reform I / Robert S. Levine
Realism / Robert Shulman
Fiction and the science of society / Susan Mizruchi
Fiction and reform II / Philip Brian Harper
Nation, region, and empire / Amy Kaplan
Gender and fiction / Elizabeth Ammons
Popular forms I / Christine Bold
Modernist eruptions / Margot Norris
American proletarianism / Paul Lauter
Popular forms II / Bill Brown
Ethnicity and the marketplace / Thomas J. Ferraro
Race and region / Thadious M. Davis
Fiction of the West / James H. Maguire
Technology and the novel / Cecelia Tichi. Society and identity / David Van Leer
Postmodern culture / Cornel West
Postmodern realism / José David Saldívar
Constructing gender / Ed Cohen
Canada in fiction / Arnold E. Davidson
Caribbean fiction / Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Latin American fiction / Debra A. Castillo
Colonialism, imperialism, and imagined homes / Ketu H. Katrak
The book marketplace II / John M. Unsworth
Postmodern fiction / Molly Hite
The avant-garde / Robert Boyers.
Additional Information
| Subjects |
American fiction
-- History and criticism.
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| Publisher | New York :Columbia University Press,1991 |
| Contributors |
Elliott, Emory,
1942-2009. Davidson, Cathy N., 1949- |
| Language |
English |
| Description |
xviii, 905 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [821]-846) and index. |
| ISBN | 0231073607 (alk. paper) : |
| Other | Classic View |