Overview

Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors discuss the professionalization of literary production after the Civil War alongside legal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; while chapters on journalism, geography, religion, and immigration offer discussions on everything from the lasting role of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's effect on developing theories of aesthetics and popular culture. The volume offers thorough coverage of the emergence of serial fiction, children's fiction, crime and detective fiction, science fiction, and even cinema and comics, as new media and artistic revolutions like the Harlem Renaissance helped usher in the new international aesthetic movement of Modernism. The final chapters in the volume explore the relationship of the novel to the emergence of ""American literature"" as a category in the academy, in public criticism and journalism, and in mass culture.

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Author:   Priscilla Wald (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Professor of English and Women's Studies, Duke University) ,  Michael A. Elliott (Winship Distinguished Professor of English, Winship Distinguished Professor of English, Emory University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 25.10cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 18.30cm
Weight:   1.157kg
ISBN:  

9780195385342

ISBN 10:   0195385349
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   06 March 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors General Editor's Preface Introduction by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott Part I: The Business of Fiction 1. Commodities and Celebrities, by Sarah Robbins 2. The Business of Publishing American Novels, by Catherine Turner 3. American Readers and Their Novels, by Amy Blair Part II. The Novel, 1870-1914 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Jonathan Arac 5. The Novel and the Reconstruction Amendments, by Jeannine DeLombard 6. Plessy and the Novel, by Edlie Wong 7. Documenting the Real, by Augusta Rohrbach 8. Journalism and the Urban Novel, by Betsy Klimasmith 9. Geographic Fictions and the American Novel, by Stephanie Foote 10. Science, Medicine, Technology & the Novel, by Jane Thrailkill 11. The Religious Novel, by Claudia Stokes 12. The Spanish-American War, U.S. Expansion, and the Novel, by Gretchen Murphy 13. The Immigrant Novel, by Josh Miller 14. The American Novel Beyond English, by Orm Øverland 15. Henry James, the Novel, and the Mediascapes of Modernity, by Jonathan Freedman 16. The Novel and the Early Cinema, by John Michael Part III: Genre Fiction and the Novel 17. The Dime Novel, by David Kazanjian 18. Serial Fiction, by Jared Gardner 19. Fictionalizing Children, Children's Fiction, by Caroline Levander 20. The American Bestseller, by Lenny Cassuto 21. Crime and Detective Fiction, by Lee Horsley 22. The Comics and the Novel, by Michael Moon 23. Novels of Utopia, Science Fiction, and Fantasy, by Gerry Canavan Part IV: The Novel, 1915-1940 24. Modernism and the International Novel, by Mark Scroggins 25. The Novel and the Rise of Social Science, by Susan Hegeman 26. The Native Novel, by Sean Teuton 27. The Novel After the Great War, by Paul Giles 28. The Harlem Renaissance Novel, by Zita Nunes 29. Faulkner and the World Culture of the Global South, by Ramón Saldívar 30. The Depression and the Novel, by Sonnet Retman 31. Hollywood and the American Novel, by Patrick Jagoda 32. Native Son and Diasporic Modernity, by Mikko Tuhkanen Part V: Critical Understandings 33. Mass Culture, the Novel, and the American Left, by Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby 34. The Making of American Literature, by Elizabeth Renker 35. The Future of the Novel and Public Criticism in Mid-Century America, by Paula Rabinowitz

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Michael A. Elliott is Professor of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism (Minnesota, 2002) and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (Chicago, 2007). Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (Duke, 1995) and Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke, 2008).

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