Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century / / ed. by Christine Gerhardt.

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• MitwirkendeR: Banerjee, Mita,; Bergland, Renée,; Cain, William E.,; Cortiel, Jeanne,; Decker, Christof,; Duquette, Elizabeth,; Emerson, D. Berton,; Fluck, Winfried,; Gerhardt, Christine,; Gersdorf, Catrin,; Gerund, Katharina,; Gunzenhäuser, Randi,; Hochbruck, Wolfgang,; Kanzler, Katja,; Keck, Michaela,; Klepper, Martin,; Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya,; Mackenthun, Gesa,; Maruo-Schröder, Nicole,; Middeke, Martin,; Mulvey, Christopher,; Paul, Heike,; Pease, Donald E.,; Pennell, Melissa McFarland,; Puskar, Jason,; Rippl, Gabriele,; Scheiding, Oliver,; Schneck, Peter,; Schoolman, Martha,; Sommerfeld, Stephanie,; Spengler, Birgit,; Twelbeck, Kirsten,; Zagarell, Sandra A.,; Zapf, Hubert,
• HerausgeberIn: Gerhardt, Christine,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies : Text and Theory ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 574 p.)

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ Preface -- Contents -- Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel in the Present: An Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Sentimentalism -- 2. Romance and Gothic -- 3. Realism and Naturalism -- 4. Race and Citizenship -- 5. Media and Print Culture -- 6. Transnationalism and Transculturation -- 7. Nature and Environment -- Part II -- 8. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, The Transformation. An American Tale (1798) -- 9. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823) -- 10. Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824) -- 11. Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) -- 12. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) -- 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) -- 14. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) -- 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1852) -- 16. William Wells Brown, Clotel; or the President’s Daughter (1853) -- 17. John Rollin Ridge, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) -- 18. Martin Delany, Blake; Or, the Huts of America (1859–1862) -- 19. Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862) -- 20. John William De Forest, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion From Secession To Loyalty (1867) -- 21. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868) -- 22. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) -- 23. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) -- 24. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) -- 25. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000–1887 (1888) -- 26. William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) -- 27. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) -- 28. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) -- 29. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) -- Index -- List of Contributors