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Shirley Samuels - Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865, Inbunden

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Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865

Av Shirley Samuels

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This Companion presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its consideration of American fictionRelates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and identityCovers different forms of fiction, including children’s literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic novels and novels of explorationConsiders both canonical and lesser-known authors, including James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Harriet Beecher StoweTreats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English
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Shirley Samuels is Professor of English and American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Romances of the Republic (1996) and Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004), and the editor of The Culture of Sentiment (1992). She is also currently the section editor of “American Literature before 1865” for the Blackwell online www.literature-compass.com.

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"Particularly impressive... Taken together the essays constitute a dense realization of a critically resurgent period, with the historical dimension emphatic throughout."American Literary Scholarship "A good resource for those just embarking on the study of American literature. Recommended."Choice

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