Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914

Robert Paul Lamb is Associate Professor of English at Purdue University. The author of many articles on American literature and recipient of Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize for scholarship, his teaching honors include Harvard’s Stephen J. Botein Prize, Purdue’s University Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, Purdue’s Liberal Arts Departmental Award for Educational Excellence, and induction into The Purdue Book of Great Teachers.G.R. Thompson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Purdue University. His previous publications include the Norton Critical Edition of Edgar Allan Poe (2004), Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy (1999), The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne’s Provincial Tales (1993), Essays and Reviews ofEdgar Allan Poe (1984), Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville and Poe (1981) and Poe’s Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales (1973).

"All praise to Lamb and Thompson … Comprehensive, well written and carefully edited ... Essential."Choice"The editors have intended the Companion to be an introduction to the field and a reference tool for 'advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty members and general intellectuals'. In this they have succeeded admirably."Reference Reviews

• List of Illustrations xNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgments xviiiEditors' Introduction 1Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. ThompsonPART I Historical Traditions and Genres 131 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15Nancy Glazener2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35William J. Scheick3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53Gregg Camfield4 Morality, Modernity, and "Malarial Restlessness": American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77Winfried Fluck5 American Literary Naturalism 96Christophe Den Tandt6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119June Howard7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140Linda Wagner-Martin8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149J. Gerald KennedyPART II Contexts and Themes 1759 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177S. K. Robisch10 "The Frontier Story": The Violence of Literary History 201Christine Bold11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222Gerald Vizenor12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240Kathleen Diffley13 Engendering the Canon: Women's Narratives, 1865–1914 260Grace Farrell14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.15 Fiction's Many Cities 296Sidney H. Bremer16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318Sarah Way Sherman17 Secrets of the Master's Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340Christopher P. Wilson18 Ethnic Realism 356Robert M. Dowling19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377Bert Bender20 Writing in the "Vulgar Tongue": Law and American Narrative 395William E. Moddelmog21 Planning Utopia 411Thomas Peyser22 American Children's Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428Gwen Athene TarboxPART III Major Authors 44923 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451John Matteson24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468Robert Paul Lamb25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499Michael Anesko26 Henry James in a New Century 518John Carlos Rowe27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557William E. Cain29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572Clare Virginia EbyIndex 587