The American Novel 1870-1940 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Novel 1870-1940 write by Priscilla Wald. This book was released on 2014-02. The American Novel 1870-1940 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
The American Novel to 1870
The American Novel to 1870 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Novel to 1870 write by J. Gerald Kennedy. This book was released on 2014. The American Novel to 1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new twelve-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Oxford History of the Novel in English - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford History of the Novel in English write by Priscilla Wald. This book was released on 2014-01-21. The Oxford History of the Novel in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors discuss the professionalization of literary production after the Civil War alongside legal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; while chapters on journalism, geography, religion, and immigration offer discussions on everything from the lasting role of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's effect on developing theories of aesthetics and popular culture. The volume offers thorough coverage of the emergence of serial fiction, children's fiction, crime and detective fiction, science fiction, and even cinema and comics, as new media and artistic revolutions like the Harlem Renaissance helped usher in the new international aesthetic movement of Modernism. The final chapters in the volume explore the relationship of the novel to the emergence of "American literature" as a category in the academy, in public criticism and journalism, and in mass culture.
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 write by Florence Goyet. This book was released on 2014-01-13. The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870 write by Barbara A. White. This book was released on 2013-05-07. American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately 325 19th century writers who meet those criteria. There are indexes by pseudonym, editor, and subject. The sources provide information not only about the individual authors but also about the history of criticism and literary politics, especially women's place in the American literary canon.
