Title The American novel, 1870-1940 / edited by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott

Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 628 pages) : illustrations Series The Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 6 Oxford history of the novel in English ; v. 6. Contents Introduction by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott -- The business of fiction. Commodities and celebrities, by Sarah Robbins; The business of publishing American novels, by Catherine Turner; American readers and their novels, by Amy Blair -- The novel, 1870-1914. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Jonathan Arac; The novel and the Reconstruction amendments, by Jeannine DeLombard; Plessy and the novel, by Edlie Wong; Documenting the real, by Augusta Rohrbach; Journalism and the urban novel, by Betsy Klimasmith; Geographic fictions and the American novel, by Stephanie Foote; Science, medicine, technology & the novel, by Jane Thrailkill; The religious novel, by Claudia Stokes; The Spanish-American War, U.S. expansion, and the novel, by Gretchen Murphy; The immigrant novel, by Josh Miller; The American novel beyond English, by Orm Øverland; Henry James, the novel, and the mediascapes of modernity, by Jonathan Freedman -- The novel and the early cinema, by John Michael -- Genre fiction and the novel. The dime novel, by David Kazanjian; Serial fiction, by Jared Gardner; Fictionalizing children, children's fiction, by Caroline Levander; The American bestseller, by Lenny Cassuto; Crime and detective fiction, by Lee Horsley; The comics and the novel, by Michael Moon; Novels of utopia, science fiction, and fantasy, by Gerry Canavan -- The novel, 1915-1940. Modernism and the international novel, by Mark Scroggins; The novel and the rise of social science, by Susan Hegeman; The native novel, by Sean Teuton; The novel after the Great War, by Paul Giles; The Harlem renaissance novel, by Zita Nunes; Faulkner and the world culture of the global South, by Ramón Saldívar; The Depression and the novel, by Sonnet Retman -- Hollywood and the American novel, by Patrick Jagoda; Native son and diasporic modernity, by Mikko Tuhkanen; Critical understandings. Mass culture, the novel, and the American left, by Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby; The making of American literature, by Elizabeth Renker; The future of the novel and public criticism in mid-century America, by Paula Rabinowitz Summary "This volume highlights the development of the American novel within the context of global networks of influence and will cover topics like Reconstruction and the novel, the immigrant bildungsroman, early cinema and the novel, religious narratives, the innovations of Henry James, comics and the novel, and hardboiled detective fiction, among many others"-- Provided by publisher Notes "The Oxford history of the novel in English; General Editor: Patrick Parrinder; Consulting Editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac"--Title page verso Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century National characteristics, American, in literature. Transnationalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction Literature and society National characteristics, American, in literature Transnationalism in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Wald, Priscilla, editor Elliott, Michael A., editor ISBN 0199909032 9780199909032 9781306082495 1306082498 9780190252779 0190252774

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