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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914
Contributor(s): Lamb, Robert Paul (Editor), Thompson, G. R. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1405100648     ISBN-13: 9781405100649
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE: $281.15  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2005
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Annotation: "A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914" is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of students, scholars, and interested general readers.

Containing 29 essays and 12 illustrations with accompanying texts, this comprehensive volume is divided into three sections covering historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors. The essays address a mixture of canonical and non-canonical subjects; so, alongside treatment of such standard topics as realism, naturalism, and regionalism are contributions on the romance, sentimentalism, early modernism, African American and Native American narratives, women's fiction, class, ethnicity, and the short story. A significant feature of the book is its inclusion of chapters on both frontier and urban narratives, Civil War literature, Darwin's influence on fiction, children's literature, consumer culture, law and narrative, utopian fiction, and ecological literature and ecocriticism. Contributors present lucid syntheses of the best criticism available on their topics and, at the same time, offer original perspectives of their own.

The "Companion" is a book that no one interested in nineteenth-century fiction or American literature can do without.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 813.409
LCCN: 2004029758
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 1.58" H x 7.12" W x 9.94" L (2.82 lbs) 642 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1949
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 1992
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 305
 
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Publisher Description:
A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.

  • An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective
  • Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors
  • Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches
  • Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction
 
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