Title: American Novel to 1870
Description: The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel.
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature and society, American literature (collections), colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, National characteristics in literature, American fiction, History and criticism, History, American literature, European influences, National characteristics, American, in literature, Social conflict in literature