Founded in Fiction : : The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States / / Thomas Koenigs.
An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-readin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Introduction
- PART I
- chapter 1 The Problem of Fictionality and the Nonfictional Novel
- chapter 2 Republican Fictions
- chapter 3 Fictionality and Female Conduct
- PART II
- chapter 4 The Shifting Logics of Historical Fiction
- chapter 5 Hoaxing in an Age of Novels
- chapter 6 Fictionality and Social Criticism
- chapter 7 Fictionality, Slavery, and Intersubjective Knowledge
- Coda: Romance and Reality in the 1850s and Beyond
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index