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A Companion to the American Novel
“As a consolidation of prior scholarship and a spur to further investigation, [this book] makes a meaningful and substantial contribution to the ongoing scholarly conversation about the American novel.”
(Review 19, 1 April 2013).
Alfred Bendixen (Edited by), A Bendixen (Author)
9781118917480, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 21 November 2014
704 pages
24.1 x 16.8 x 3.3 cm, 1.021 kg
Featuring 37 essays by distinguished literary scholars, A Companion to the American Novel provides a comprehensive single-volume treatment of the development of the novel in the United States from the late 18th century to the present day.
Notes on Contributors ix Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi A Chronology of the American Novel xxii Part I: Historical Developments 1 1 The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3 2 The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19 3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860–1920) 42 4 Modernism and the American Novel 60 5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76 6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945–1970 90 7 The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970–Present) 109 Part II: Genres and Traditions 127 8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States 129 9 The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147 10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States 170 11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel 187 12 The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier 206 13 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218 14 Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241 15 Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel 259 16 African American Traditions and the American Novel 274 17 The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291 18 O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309 19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323 20 Queer Theory and the American Novel 342 21 The American Short-Story Cycle: Out From the Novel’s Shadow 357 Part III: Major Texts 373 22 The Woman’s Law in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter 375 23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville’s Moby-Dick 394 24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 408 25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady 422 26 Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child’s Search for Comfort and Peace 443 27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening 454 28 Private Fleming’s Various Battles: Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage 465 29 Lily’s Story: Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth 475 30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises 488 31 Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land 499 32 Ground Zero: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury 510 33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright’s Native Son and the Great American Novel 525 34 Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537 35 The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow’s The Adventures of Augie March 554 36 The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison’s Beloved 570 37 A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road 582 Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel 598 Index 610
Alfred Bendixen
Maria Karafilis
Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Peter L. Hays
Alfred Bendixen
Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin
Martha J. Cutter
Charles L. Crow
Emily Miller Budick
Marianne Noble
Chip Rhodes
James H. Meredith
Judith Yaross Lee
Derek Parker Royal
Juan J. Alonzo
Melvin Donalson
Leonard Cassuto
Eric S. Rabkin
Jean Pfaelzer
Deborah Carlin
Robert M. Luscher
Monika Elbert
Wyn Kelley
Susan Belasco
Greg W. Zacharias
Michael J. Kiskis
Emily Toth
James Nagel
Kathy Fedorko
James Nagel
Richard Lehan
Philip Weinstein
Andrew Warnes
John Carlos Rowe
Ben Siegel
Valerie Smith
Olivia Carr Edenfield
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
