Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
By: Shirley Samuels
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780631232872; 9780631232889
Subjects: Social psychology in literature; Literature and history; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Social history in literature; Books and reading; Identity (Psychology) in literature; American fiction; In literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness; title: Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts; title: Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper; title: Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville; title: Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe; title: Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott; title: Afterword.