A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914

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. An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion 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 Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

Robert Paul Lamb 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 The Purdue Book of Great Teachers.

G.R. Thompson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. His previous publications include the Norton Critical Edition of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy (1999), The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne’s Provincial Tales (1993), Essays and Reviews ofEdgar Allan Poe (1984), Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville and Poe (1981) and Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales (1973).

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Historical Traditions and Genres
The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism
Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition
The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865-1900
Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in Its Anglo-European Contexts
American Literary Naturalism
American Regionalism: Local Color, National Identity, and Global Imperative
Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism
The Short Story and the Short Story Sequence, 1865-1914
Contexts and Themes
Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing
"The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History
Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance
Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus
Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865-1914
Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives
Fiction's Many Cities
Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture
Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class
"Ethnic Realism"
Darwin, Science, and Narrative
Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative
Planning Utopia
American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865-1914
Major Authors
An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott
America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain
William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion
Henry James in a New Century
Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton
Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane
Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal
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