Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century /

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

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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...

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Gerhardt, Christine,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (584 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editors' Preface / Middeke, Martin / Rippl, Gabriele / Zapf, Hubert
  • Contents
  • Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel in the Present: An Introduction / Gerhardt, Christine
  • Part I
  • 1. Sentimentalism / Gerund, Katharina / Paul, Heike
  • 2. Romance and Gothic / Gunzenhäuser, Randi / Laemmerhirt, Iris-Aya
  • 3. Realism and Naturalism / Fluck, Winfried
  • 4. Race and Citizenship / Banerjee, Mita
  • 5. Media and Print Culture / Emerson, D. Berton
  • 6. Transnationalism and Transculturation / Mackenthun, Gesa
  • 7. Nature and Environment / Gersdorf, Catrin
  • Part II
  • 8. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, The Transformation. An American Tale (1798) / Scheiding, Oliver
  • 9. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823) / Schneck, Peter
  • 10. Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824) / Keck, Michaela
  • 11. Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) / Bergland, Renée
  • 12. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) / Sommerfeld, Stephanie
  • 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) / Pennell, Melissa McFarland
  • 14. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) / Pease, Donald E.
  • 15. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1852) / Paul, Heike
  • 16. William Wells Brown, Clotel; or the President's Daughter (1853) / Mulvey, Christopher
  • 17. John Rollin Ridge, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) / Cortiel, Jeanne
  • 18. Martin Delany, Blake; Or, the Huts of America (1859-1862) / Schoolman, Martha
  • 19. Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862) / Spengler, Birgit
  • 20. John William De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty (1867) / Twelbeck, Kirsten
  • 21. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868) / Maruo-Schröder, Nicole
  • 22. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) / Duquette, Elizabeth
  • 23. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) / Klepper, Martin
  • 24. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) / Hochbruck, Wolfgang
  • 25. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888) / Decker, Christof
  • 26. William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) / Puskar, Jason
  • 27. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) / Cain, William E.
  • 28. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) / Zagarell, Sandra A.
  • 29. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) / Kanzler, Katja
  • Index
  • List of Contributors

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