Reading the American novel 1865-1914 /

"An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fr...

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Main Author: Thompson, Gary Richard, 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Reading the novel ; 4.
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505 0 |a Front Matter -- Introduction -- Toward the "Great American Novel" -- Of Realism and Reality -- Dramas of the Broken Teacup -- The Nature of Naturalism -- Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance -- Frank Norris -- The Rocking Horse Winners -- Subjective Realism -- Impressions of War -- Sense and Sensibility -- Domestic Feminism -- "All the Happy Endings" -- Vulgarians at the Gate -- Tea-Table as Jungle -- Economies of Pain -- The "Gilded Age" -- What Is An American? -- The Territory Ahead -- The "Dream of a Republic" -- At the Modernist Margin -- Bibliographical Resources -- Index. 
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