| A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914 Contributor(s): Lamb, Robert Paul (Editor), Thompson, G. R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1405100648 ISBN-13: 9781405100649 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $281.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: "A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914" is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers. Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions on the romance, sentimentalism, early modernism, African American and Native American narratives, women's fiction, class, ethnicity, and the short story. A significant feature of the book is its inclusion of chapters on both frontier and urban narratives, Civil War literature, Darwin's influence on fiction, children's literature, consumer culture, law and narrative, utopian fiction, and ecological literature and ecocriticism. Contributors present lucid syntheses of the best criticism available on their topics and, at the same time, offer original perspectives of their own. The "Companion" is a book that no one interested in nineteenth-century fiction or American literature can do without. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 813.409 |
| LCCN: 2004029758 |
| Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.58" H x 7.12" W x 9.94" (2.82 lbs) 642 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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| Publisher Description: A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.
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