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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Promises to be the most compendious critical guide to the first phase(s) of the American novel ever published
Strikes a balance between a traditionalist major authors/major works approach and newer post-canonical-revisionist, critical race/class/gender, postcolonial, environmental, and history-of-the-book studies

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656 Pages | 5 illus.

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ISBN: 9780195385359

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Description

The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the "literary" novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies.

In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters. "Dime novels", literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most "American" of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Acknowledgments
Contributors
General Editor's Preface

Introduction: The American Novel to 1870
J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Part I: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States

1. Before the American Novel
Betsy Erkkilä

2. The Sentimental Novel and the Seductions of Postcolonial Imitation
Karen A. Weyler

3. Complementary Strangers: Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, and the Early American Sentimental Gothic
Marion Rust

4. Trends and Patterns in the US Novel, 1800-1820
Ed White

5. Unsettling Novels of the Early Republic
Leonard Tennenhouse

Part II: The Novel and American Nation Building

6. Walter Scott and the American Historical Novel
Fiona Robertson

7. Revolutionary Novels and the Problem of Literary Nationalism
Joseph J. Letter

8. Frontier Novels, Border Wars, and Indian Removal
Dana D. Nelson

9. America's Europe: Irving, Poe, and the 'Foreign Subject
J. Gerald Kennedy

Part III: The American Publishing World and the Novel

10. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Literary Market
Michael Winship

11. The Perils of Authorship: Literary Property and Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith L. McGill

12. Periodicals and the Novel
Patricia Okker

13. Cheap Sensation: Pamphlet Potboilers and Beadle's Dime Novels
Shelley Streeby

Part IV: Leading Novelists of Antebellum America

14. James Fenimore Cooper: Beyond Leather-Stocking
Wayne Franklin

15. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Domestic and National Narratives
James L. Machor

16. Hawthorne and the Historical Romance
Larry J. Reynolds

17. Herman Melville
Jonathan Arac

18. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Antislavery Cause
John Ernest

Part V: Major Novels
19. The Last of the Mohicans: Race to Citizenship
Leland S. Person

20. The Scarlet Letter
Monika Elbert

21. Moby-Dick and Globalization
John Carlos Rowe

22. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
David S. Reynolds

Part VI: Cultural Influences on the American Novel, 1820-1870

23. Transatlantic Currents and Postcolonial Anxieties
Paul Giles

24. The Transamerican Novel
Anna Brickhouse

25. Slavery, Abolitionism, and the African American Novel
Ivy G. Wilson

26. Ethnic Novels and the Construction of the Multicultural Nation to 1870
John Lowe

27. Women's Novels and the Gendering of Genius
Renée Bergland

28. Male Hybrids in Classic American Fiction
David Leverenz

29. Studying Nature in the Antebellum Novel
Timothy Sweet

30. Novels of Faith and Doubt in a Changing Culture
Caroline Levander

Part VII: Fictional Subgenres

31. Temperance Novels and Moral Reform
Debra J. Rosenthal

32. Novels of Travel and Exploration
Gretchen Murphy

33. The City Mystery Novel
Scott Peeples

34. Surviving National Disunion: Civil War Novels of the 1860s
Paul Christian Jones

Composite Bibliography
Index of American Novelists to 1870
Index

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Author Information

J. Gerald Kennedy is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing and Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity. He is the editor of the Oxford Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe.

Leland S. Person is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of Aesthetic Headaches: Women and a Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne, Henry James and the Suspense of Masculinity, and The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Contributors:

Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh
Renée Bergland, Simmons College
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia
Lara Langer Cohen, Wayne State University
Monika Elbert, Montclair State University
Betsy Erkkilä, Northwestern University
John Ernest, University of Delaware
Wayne Franklin, University of Connecticut
Paul Giles, University of Sydney
Paul Christian Jones, Ohio University
J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University
Joseph J. Letter, University of Tampa
Caroline Levander, Rice University
David Leverenz, University of Florida
John Lowe, University of Georgia
James L. Machor, Kansas State University
Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
Gretchen Murphy, University of Texas at Austin
Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University
Patricia Okker, University of Missouri
Scott Peeples, College of Charleston
Leland S. Person, Texas A&M University
David S. Reynolds, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Larry J. Reynolds, Texas A&M University
Fiona Robertson, St Mary's University College
Debra J. Rosenthal, John Carroll University
Marion Rust, University of Kentucky
John Carlos Rowe, University of Southern California, Dornsife
Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego
Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University
Leonard Tennenhouse, Duke University
Karen A. Weyler, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Ed White, Tulane University
Ivy G. Wilson, Northwestern University
Michael Winship, University of Georgia

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

Promises to be the most compendious critical guide to the first phase(s) of the American novel ever published
Strikes a balance between a traditionalist major authors/major works approach and newer post-canonical-revisionist, critical race/class/gender, postcolonial, environmental, and history-of-the-book studies

$250.00

Hardcover

Published: 25 July 2014

656 Pages | 5 illus.

6-3/4 x 9-3/4 inches

ISBN: 9780195385359

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Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

The Oxford History of the Novel in English

Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870

Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Oxford History of the Novel in English

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Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

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Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

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