A Companion to American Fiction, 1780 - 1865ISBN: 978-1-4051-5891-6
Paperback
488 pages
November 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Spansthe period from the earliest declarations of nationhood
until secession and civil war
- Draws heavily on historical and cultural contexts in its
consideration of American fiction
- Relates the fiction of the period to conflicts about territory
and sovereignty and to issues of gender, race, ethnicity and
identity
- Covers different forms of fiction, including children’s
literature, sketches, polemical pieces, historical romances, Gothic
novels and novels of exploration
- Considers both canonical and lesser-known authors, including
James Fennimore Cooper, Hannah Foster, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman
Melville and Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Treats neglected topics, such as the Western novel, science and the novel, and American fiction in languages other than English
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