Author: Clement VollmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The American Novel in Germany, 1871-1913
Author: Clement VollmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The American Novel 1870-1940
Author: Priscilla WaldPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195385349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.
The American Novel to 1870
Author: J. Gerald KennedyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195385357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
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. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new twelve-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic.
Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Christine GerhardtPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110481324
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
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.
The Reception of the American Novel in German Periodicals (1945-1957).
Author: Sara Elizabeth BallengerPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Author: Timo MüllerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110422425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time “before theory.” Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
Images of Germany in American Literature
Author: Waldemar ZacharasiewiczPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587297787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Although German Americans number almost 43 million and are the largest ethnic group in the United States, scholars of American literature have paid little attention to this influential and ethnically diverse cultural group. In a work of unparalleled depth and range, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz explores the cultural and historical background of the varied images of Germany and Germans throughout the past two centuries. Using an interdisciplinary approach known as comparative imagology, which borrows from social psychology and cultural anthropology, Zacharasiewicz samples a broad spectrum of original sources, including literary works, letters, diaries, autobiographical accounts, travelogues, newspaper reports, films, and even cartoons and political caricatures. Starting with the notion of Germany as the ideal site for academic study and travel in the nineteenth century and concluding with the twentieth-century image of Germany as an aggressive country, this innovative work examines the ever-changing image of Germans and Germany in the writings of Louisa May Alcott, Samuel Clemens, Henry James, William James, George Santayana, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Thomas Wolfe, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, William Styron, Walker Percy, and John Hawkes, among others.
German American Annals
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A Cultural History of the American Novel, 1890-1940
Author: David L. MinterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521467490
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book interweaves a wide selection of the novels of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with a series of cultural events ranging from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the "Southern Renaissance" of the 1930s.
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Author: Leonard CassutoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521899079
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1271
Book Description
An authoritative and lively account of the development of the genre, by leading experts in the field.