{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-fiction-1780-1865-isbn-9780631234227","title":"A Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRelates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identity\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers different forms of fiction, including children’s literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of exploration\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders both canonical and lesser-known authors, including James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTreats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations viii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments xvi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShirley Samuels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Historical and Cultural Contexts 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Fiction and Democracy 20\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Downes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Democratic Fictions 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSandra M. Gustafson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Engendering American Fictions 40\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartha J. Cutter and Caroline F. Levander\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Race and Ethnicity 52\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert S. Levine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Class 64\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Gould\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Sexualities 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eValerie Rohy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Religion 87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Gutjahr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Education and Polemic 97\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephanie Foote\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Marriage and Contract 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNaomi Morgenstern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Transatlantic Ventures 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWil Verhoeven and Stephen Shapiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Other Languages, Other Americas 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKirsten Silva Gruesz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Forms of Fiction 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Literary Histories 147\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Drexler and Ed White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Breeding and Reading: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic 158\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher Lukasik\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The American Gothic 168\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianne Noble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Sensational Fiction 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eShelley Streeby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Melodrama and American Fiction 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLori Merish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other ‘‘Crossings’’ in Fictionalized Slave Narratives 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCherene Sherrard-Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction 216\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephanie P. Browner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Law and the American Novel 228\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLaura H. Korobkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Labor and Fiction 239\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCindy Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Words for Children 249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCarol J. Singley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Dime Novels 262\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eColin T. Ramsey and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Reform and Antebellum Fiction 274\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChris Castiglia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III Authors, Locations, Purposes 285\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Problem of the City 287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHeather Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 New Landscapes 301\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy Sweet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, George Lippard, and E. D. E. N. Southworth 314\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDana Luciano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, and John Pendleton Kennedy 330\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Barnard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving’s ‘‘Rip Van Winkle’’ 342\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Gary Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land 353\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBethany Schneider\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism 365\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatherine Adams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery 378\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Buffington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 The West 388\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdward Watts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris 400\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Rachels\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel 411\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWayne Franklin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby-Dick 425\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephanie A. Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 National Narrative and National History 434\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRuss Castronovo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 445\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Particularly impressive... Taken together the essays constitute a dense realization of a critically resurgent period, with the historical dimension emphatic throughout.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A good resource for those just embarking on the study of American literature. Recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eShirley Samuels\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRomances of the Republic \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) and \u003ci\u003eFacing America: Iconography and the Civil War \u003c\/i\u003e(2004), and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Sentiment\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). She is also currently the section editor of “\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature before 1865\u003c\/i\u003e” for the Blackwell online www.literature-compass.com. \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865\u003c\/i\u003e presents current critical responses to the broad range of American fiction written from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. The volume features contributions from over 35 leading international critics and scholars, who offer a cultural and historical context that serves to illuminate the fiction. 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