Title: The popular American novel, 1865-1920 /
Authors: Smith, Herbert F., 1933-
Publisher: Twayne Publishers,
Year: 1980
Subjects: American fiction History and criticism; American fiction History and criticism; Popular literature United States.; Popular literature United States History and criticism.
Contents: The Protestant Ethic -- Drowning in Bathos: The Sentimental Novel -- The Decline and Fall of New England -- The Rise of the South -- Social Satire in the Gilded Age -- Exotics, Fantastics, and Cowboys -- The Political Novel -- Toward the Modern: Some Reluctant Innovators.