Featuring 38 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the presentday.Represents the most comprehensive single-volume introduction to this popular literary form currently availableFeatures 38 contributions from a wide range of distinguished literary scholarsIncludes essays on topics and genres, historical overviews, and key individual works, including The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, Beloved, and many more. INDICE: Notes on ContributorsPrefacePart I: Historical Developments1. The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of GenreAlfred Bendixen2. The American Novel: Beginnings through the American RenaissanceMaria Karafilis3. The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860-1920)Jeanne Campbell Reesman4. Modernism and American Literature (1915-1945)Peter L. Hays5. The American Novel: Beyond Modernism (1915-1945)Alfred Bendixen6. The Cold War Novel: The American Novel (1945-1970)Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin7. The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970- present)Martha J. Cutter8. A Chronology of the American NovelAlfred BendixenPart II: Genres and Traditions9. Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United StatesCharles L. Crow10. The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. DoctorowEmily Miller Budick11. Making this Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United StatesMarianne Noble12. Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political NovelChip Rhodes13. The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual SoldierJames H. Meredith14. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American NovelJudith Yaross Lee15. Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American NovelDerek Parker Royal16. Chicano/a Traditions in the American NovelJuan J. Alonzo17. African American Traditions and the American NovelMelvin Donalson18. The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and DetectionLeonard Cassuto19. O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American NovelEric S. Rabkin20. Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United StatesJean Pfaelzer21. Queer Theory and the American NovelDeborah Carlin22. The American Short-Story Cycle: Out from the Novel€™s ShadowRobert M. Luscher23. Selected Readings in the Genres of the American NovelAlfred BendixenPart III: Major Texts24. The Woman's Lawin Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterMonika Elbert25. Writ in Water: The Books ofMelville's Moby-DickWyn Kelley26. Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's CabinSusan Belasco27. Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James's The Portrait of a LadyGreg W. Zacharias28. A Child's Search for Comfort and Peace: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMichael J. Kiskis29. What Women Want: Kate Chopin's The AwakeningEmily Toth30. Private Fleming's Various Battles: Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of CourageJames Nagel31. Lily's Story: Edith Wharton's House of MirthKathy Fedorko32. Jim Burden and the World: Willa Cather's My AntoniaAlfred Bendixen33. The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also RisesJames Nagel34. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the LandRichard Lehan35. Ground Zero: Faulkner's The Sound and the FuryPhilip M. Weinstein36. A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright's Native Son and the Great American NovelAndrew Warnes37. Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of U.S. DiversityJohn Carlos Rowe38. The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie MarchBen Siegel39. The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison's BelovedValerie Smith40. A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy's The RoadOlivia Carr Edenfield
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-0119-6
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 704
- Fecha Publicación: 20/04/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés