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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 / Shirley Samuels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuels, Shirley.
- Series:
- Reading the novel
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books and reading.
- History.
- United States--In literature.
- United States.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Social history in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Social psychology in literature.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- Literature and history--United States.
- Literature and history.
- Books and reading--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 185 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780631232872
- 0631232877
- 9780631232889
- 0631232885
- OCLC:
- 748286898
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