The American novel, 1870-1940 /
Wald, Priscilla.
Elliott, Michael A.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
c2014.
"The Oxford history of the novel in English; General Editor: Patrick Parrinder; Advisory Editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [583]-604) and indexes.
Introduction by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott -- The business of fiction. Textual commodities and authorial celebrities, by Sarah Robbins; The business of publishing American novels, by Catherine Turner; American readers and their novels, by Amy L. Blair -- The novel, 1870-1914. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Jonathan Arac; The novel and the Reconstruction amendments, by Jeannine Marie Delombard; Plessy and the novel, by Edlie Wong; Documenting the real, by Augusta Rohrbach; Journalism and the urban novel, by Betsy Klimasmith; Geographic fictions and the American novel, by Stephanie Foote; Science, medicine, technology and the novel, 1860-1915, by Jane F. Thrailkill; The religious novel, by Claudia Stokes; The Spanish-American War, U.S. expansion, and the novel, by Gretchen Murphy; The immigrant novel, by Joshua L. Miller; The American novel beyond English, by Orm Øverland; Henry James, the novel, and the mediascapes of modernity, by Jonathan Freedman -- The novel and the early cinema, by John Michael -- Genre fiction and the novel. The dime novel, by David Kazanjian; Serial fiction and the novel, by Jared Gardner; Fictionalizing children, children's fiction, by Caroline Levander; The American bestseller, by Leonard Cassuto; Crime and detective fiction after the Great War, by Lee Horsley; Comics and the novel, by Michael Moon; Science fiction in the United States, by Gerry Canavan -- The novel, 1915-1940. Modernism and the international novel, by Mark Scroggins; The novel and the rise of social science, by Susan Hegeman; The native novel, by Sean Kicummah Teuton; The novel after the Great War, by Paul Giles; The Harlem renaissance novel, by Zita Nunes; Faulkner and the world culture of the global South, by Ramón Saldívar; The Depression and the novel, by Sonnet Retman -- Hollywood and the American novel, by Patrick Jagoda; Native son and diasporic modernity, by Mikko Tuhkanen; Critical understandings. Mass culture, the novel, and the American left, by Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby; The making of American literature, by Elizabeth Renker; The future of the novel and public criticism in mid-century America, by Paula Rabinowitz.
American fiction
American fiction
Literature and society
Literature and society
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.