The American novel to 1870

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Label

The American novel to 1870

Statement of responsibility

edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person

Contributor

• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
• Person, Leland S.
• Person, Leland S.
• Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
• Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-

Editor

• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
• Person, Leland S.
• Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
• Kennedy, J. Gerald
• Person, Leland S.
• Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-
• Parrinder, Patrick, 1944-

Subject

• American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
• American literature -- European influences
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• National characteristics, American, in literature
• Social conflict in literature

Language

eng

Summary

The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel

Member of

• Oxford history of the novel in English, 5
• Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online)

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

813.209

Index

index present

LC call number

PS375

LC item number

.A44 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The Oxford history of the novel in English

Series volume

5

Target audience

specialized