{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-fiction-1865-1914-isbn-9781405195539","title":"A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDivided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors' Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eHistorical Traditions and Genres\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Glazener\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam J. Scheick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGregg Camfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Morality, Modernity, and \"Malarial Restlessness\": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinfried Fluck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 American Literary Naturalism 96\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristophe Den Tandt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJune Howard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLinda Wagner-Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eContexts and Themes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eS. K. Robisch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 \"The Frontier Story\": The Violence of Literary History 201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristine Bold\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGerald Vizenor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathleen Diffley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865–1914 260\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGrace Farrell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDickson D. Bruce, Jr.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Fiction's Many Cities 296\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSidney H. Bremer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSarah Way Sherman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher P. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Ethnic Realism 356\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert M. Dowling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBert Bender\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Writing in the \"Vulgar Tongue\": Law and American Narrative 395\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam E. Moddelmog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Planning Utopia 411\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas Peyser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGwen Athene Tarbox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMajor Authors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e449\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Matteson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Paul Lamb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Anesko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Henry James in a New Century 518\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Carlos Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCandace Waid and Clare Colquitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWilliam E. Cain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClare Virginia Eby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 587\u003c\/p\u003e  \"All praise to Lamb and Thompson … Comprehensive, well written and carefully edited ... Essential.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The editors have intended the \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e to be an introduction to the field and a reference tool for 'advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and general intellectuals'. In this they have succeeded admirably.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReference Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRobert Paul Lamb\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. The author of many articles on American literature and recipient of Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize for scholarship, his teaching honors include Harvard’s Stephen J. Botein Prize, Purdue’s University Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, Purdue’s Liberal Arts Departmental Award for Educational Excellence, and induction into \u003ci\u003eThe Purdue Book of Great Teachers\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eG.R. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. His previous publications include the \u003ci\u003eNorton Critical Edition of Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eNeutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne’s Provincial Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), \u003ci\u003eEssays and Reviews ofEdgar Allan Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eRuined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville and Poe\u003c\/i\u003e (1981) and \u003ci\u003ePoe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales\u003c\/i\u003e (1973).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Fiction, 1865–1914\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers.  \u003cp\u003eContaining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in American literature from this important period.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988600406245,"sku":"NP9781405195539","price":65.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405195539.jpg?v=1761780922","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-american-fiction-1865-1914-isbn-9781405195539","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}