Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

基本信息出版社:Wiley-Blackwell丛书名:Reading the Novel其他:208页正文语种:英语ISBN:1444354353条形码:9781444354355ASIN:1444354353商品描述内容简介Reading the American Novel 1780-1865provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period.Offers an overview of early fictional genres and introduces ways to interpret them todayFeatures in depth examinations of specific novelsExplores the social and historical contexts of the time to help the readers’ understanding of the storiesExplores questions of identity - about the novel, its 19th-century readers, and the emerging structure of the United States - as an important backdrop to understanding American fictionProfiles the major authors, including Louisa May Alcott, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, alongside less familiar writers such as Fanny Fern, Caroline Kirkland, George Lippard, Catharine Sedgwick, and E. D. E. N. Southworth专业书评"In her openness to surprise and discovery, Samuels demonstrates that the pleasures of reading are forever new and changing, as historical conditions and media formations change. This wonderful book will both confirm a rich tradition of scholarship and challenge its findings at every turn."

—Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Samuels makes a powerful and timely case for the ongoing importance of reading 19thc US fiction. In her capable hands, newcomers as well as seasoned readers of this material discover the pleasures and profound possibilities that fiction reading has offered American audiences over the last two hundred years."

—Caroline Levander, Rice University