"Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in Americ...

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Main Author:	Crane, Gregg David (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2007
Edition:	1. publ.
Series:	Cambridge introductions to literature
Subjects:	Geschichte 1800-1900 Geschichte American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism Literary form > History > 19th century Literature and history > United States National characteristics, American, in literature Popular literature > United States > History and criticism Roman USA
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	"Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity, growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments. He analyses the different types of American fiction - romance, sentimental fiction, and the realist novel - in detail, while the historical context is explained in relation to how novelists explored the changing world around them. This comprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students' experience of reading and studying the whole canon of American fiction." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007014638-d.html.
Physical Description:	IX, 238 S.
ISBN:	0521843251 9780521843256 9780521603997 0521603994