Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / Shirley Samuels.
Material type: TextSeries: Reading the novel ; 5.Publication details: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.Description: pagesContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781444354355
- 1444354353
- United States -- In literature
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Social history in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Social psychology in literature
- Literature and society -- United States
- Literature and history -- United States
- Books and reading -- United States -- History
- American fiction
- Books and reading
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Literature
- Literature and history
- Literature and society
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Social history in literature
- Social psychology in literature
- United States
- 1700-1899
- 813/.209 23
- PS374.U5 S26 2012
Front Matter -- Introduction to the American Novel -- Historical Codes in Literary Analysis -- Women, Blood, and Contract -- Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales -- Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Afterword -- Further Reading -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword.
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