Title: Recalling fiction's cultural context, Early Gothic and Utopian romance : Cooper, Poe, Crane, Cather, Lawrence, Fitzgerald, and West /
Authors: Pitcher, Edward W. R.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: American fiction History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) United States.; Utopias in literature.; Literary form.; Literary form History; Literary form History
Contents: Three approaches to eighteenth-century genres: Gothic fragments, utopian satire, captivity narratives -- Three ways to historicize Cooper's The last of the Mohicans: pitching, beaver, cunning -- Three entries to the house of Poe: poetic undercurrents, cosmogonical landscapes, assignations -- Three approaches to the short story, 1890-1925: Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, D.H. Lawrence -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the night: the past imperfect of Dick and Nicole -- Flight and flightlessness in West's The day of the locust.