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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
- Title
- Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / Shirley Samuels.
- Author
- Samuels, Shirley.
- Publication
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 12-2919 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 185 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Reading the novel
- Uniform Title
- Reading the novel.
- Subjects
- Social history in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Books and reading > United States > History
- American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
- Social psychology in literature
- United States > In literature
- Literature and society > United States
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Literature and history > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-2919
- ISBN
- 9780631232872 (cloth)
- 0631232877 (cloth)
- 9780631232889 (pbk.)
- 0631232885 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2011032108
- OCLC
- YBP 2011032108
- Author
- Samuels, Shirley.
- Title
- Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / Shirley Samuels.
- Imprint
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Series
- Reading the novelReading the novel.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-2919