Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century

Edited by: Christine Gerhardt

Volume 7 in the series Handbooks of English and American Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110481327

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About this book

This handbook offers students and researchers a compact introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of America‘s most well-known and influential novels responded to and participated in the radical transformations that characterized American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical and critical frameworks ― including debates aboutrace and citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture, as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives shaped by literary and cultural theory.

Author / Editor information

Christine Gerhardt, University of Bamberg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel in the Present: An Introduction Christine Gerhardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I
1. Sentimentalism Katharina Gerund and Heike Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. Romance and Gothic Randi Gunzenhäuser and Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
3. Realism and Naturalism Winfried Fluck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
4. Race and Citizenship Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
5. Media and Print Culture D. Berton Emerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. Transnationalism and Transculturation Gesa Mackenthun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7. Nature and Environment Catrin Gersdorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Part II
8. Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; or, The Transformation. An American Tale (1798) Oliver Scheiding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
9. James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823) Peter Schneck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
10. Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824) Michaela Keck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
11. Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827) Renée Bergland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12. Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) Stephanie Sommerfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
13. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: A Romance (1850) Melissa McFarland Pennell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
14. Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) Donald E. Pease Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
15. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (1852) Heike Paul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
16. William Wells Brown, Clotel; or the President’s Daughter (1853) Christopher Mulvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
17. John Rollin Ridge, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854) Jeanne Cortiel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
18. Martin Delany, Blake; Or, the Huts of America (1859–1862) Martha Schoolman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
19. Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862) Birgit Spengler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
20. John William De Forest, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion From Secession To Loyalty (1867) Kirsten Twelbeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	378
21. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868) Nicole Maruo-Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
22. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) Elizabeth Duquette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	418
23. Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) Martin Klepper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	434
24. Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) Wolfgang Hochbruck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
25. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000–1887 (1888) Christof Decker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	474
26. William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) Jason Puskar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	490
27. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895) William E. Cain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	508
28. Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) Sandra A. Zagarell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
29. Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899) Katja Kanzler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 574
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
- Coloured Illustrations: 10
Keywords: Literary Studies; Literary History; British and American Literature: 18th – 20th Centuries

eBook

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110481327

Hardcover

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110480818