{"product_id":"a-companion-to-the-american-novel-9781118917480","title":"A Companion to the American Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from 1780 to the present day. Leading scholars in the field trace the development of the American novel during a specific period, paying special attention to the interaction of cultural forces and aesthetic principles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Chronology of the American Novel xxii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Historical Developments 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlfred Bendixen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaria Karafilis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860–1920) 42\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanne Campbell Reesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Modernism and the American Novel 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePeter L. Hays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlfred Bendixen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945–1970 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon Becker and Wendy Martin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970–Present) 109\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMartha J. Cutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Genres and Traditions 127\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States 129\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles L. Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Emily Miller Budick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States 170\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarianne Noble\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChip Rhodes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier 206\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames H. Meredith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJudith Yaross Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDerek Parker Royal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Chicano\/a Traditions in the American Novel 259\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJuan J. Alonzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 African American Traditions and the American Novel 274\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMelvin Donalson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeonard Cassuto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric S. Rabkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJean Pfaelzer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Queer Theory and the American Novel 342\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Carlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 The American Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel’s Shadow 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert M. Luscher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Major Texts 373\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Woman’s Law in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 375\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMonika Elbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville’s Moby-Dick 394\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWyn Kelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 408\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSusan Belasco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady 422\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGreg W. Zacharias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child’s Search for Comfort and Peace 443\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael J. Kiskis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening 454\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEmily Toth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Private Fleming’s Various Battles: Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage 465\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Nagel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Lily’s Story: Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth 475\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKathy Fedorko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises 488\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Nagel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land 499\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Lehan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Ground Zero: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 510\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip Weinstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright’s Native Son and the Great American Novel 525\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Warnes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Carlos Rowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March 554\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBen Siegel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison’s Beloved 570\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eValerie Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 582\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOlivia Carr Edenfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel 598\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 610\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039264014679,"sku":"9781118917480","price":38.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118917480.jpg?v=1750943097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-the-american-novel-9781118917480","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}