American fiction : an historical and critical survey
1936
813.09 Q7 1936
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Title
American fiction : an historical and critical survey
Published
New York ; London D. Appleton-Century Co c1936
Description
xxiii, 805 p. ; 24 cm
Call Number
813.09 Q7 1936
System Control No.
(OCoLC)00964300
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 725-772) and index
Contents: Foundations of American fiction -- Charles Brockden Brown and the establishment of romance -- Washington Irving and other pioneers -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Edgar Allan Poe and the establishment of the short story -- Development of idealistic romance -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, the romance of the moral life -- Herman Melville and the exotic romance -- Transition to realism -- Fiction of fantasy -- Bret Harte and the fiction of moral contrast -- Mark Twain and the romance of youth -- William Dean Howells and the establishment of realism -- Henry James and the fiction of international relations -- Weir Mitchell, pioneer and patrician -- Place and race in American fiction -- Joel Chandler Harris and the fiction of folklore -- Francis Marion Crawford and the cosmopolitan novel -- Urbane Note in American fiction -- Development of realism -- James Lane Allen and the novel of the spirit -- Romance of history and politics -- LaFacadio Hearn and the later exotic romance -- Journalists -- Edith Wharton -- Anne Douglas Sedgwick -- Booth Tarkington and the later romance -- Critics and satirists--the liberals -- Critics and satirists--the radicals -- Ellen Glasgow and the New South -- Willa Cather -- Celebration of the individual -- Retrospect and prospect
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Contents: Foundations of American fiction -- Charles Brockden Brown and the establishment of romance -- Washington Irving and other pioneers -- James Fenimore Cooper -- Edgar Allan Poe and the establishment of the short story -- Development of idealistic romance -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, the romance of the moral life -- Herman Melville and the exotic romance -- Transition to realism -- Fiction of fantasy -- Bret Harte and the fiction of moral contrast -- Mark Twain and the romance of youth -- William Dean Howells and the establishment of realism -- Henry James and the fiction of international relations -- Weir Mitchell, pioneer and patrician -- Place and race in American fiction -- Joel Chandler Harris and the fiction of folklore -- Francis Marion Crawford and the cosmopolitan novel -- Urbane Note in American fiction -- Development of realism -- James Lane Allen and the novel of the spirit -- Romance of history and politics -- LaFacadio Hearn and the later exotic romance -- Journalists -- Edith Wharton -- Anne Douglas Sedgwick -- Booth Tarkington and the later romance -- Critics and satirists--the liberals -- Critics and satirists--the radicals -- Ellen Glasgow and the New South -- Willa Cather -- Celebration of the individual -- Retrospect and prospect
L2005M106
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