Truth's ragged edge : the rise of the American novel
2013
813.09 G977 2013
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Title
Truth's ragged edge : the rise of the American novel
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description
xix, 330 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
813.09 G977 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)795175012
Note
" ... the first comprehensive study of the early American novel since Richard Chase's 1957 classic, The American novel and Its tradition. Gura opens with the first truly homegrown genre of fiction: religious tracts, short parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. He then turns to the city novels of the 1830s, which depicted with mixed feelings the rapid growth and modernization of American society. He concludes with fresh interpretations of the introspective novels that appeared before the Civil War, such as those by Hawthorne and by Melville, from whom Gura takes his title. The grand narrative sweep of the book is balanced by Gura's great insight that the early novel never fully left its origins behind, even as it evolved--it remained a means of theological and philosophical dispute, and reflected the oldest and deepest divisions in American Christianity, politics, and culture. In addition to discussing novels that are considered classics, Gura recovers many novels--by authors as diverse as the evangelical writer Susan Warner, the African American novelist Frank J. Webb, and the early feminist novelist Elizabeth Stoddard--that will be revelations to the contemporary reader. Panoramic and original, Truth's Ragged Edge is an indispensable guide to the origins and development of the American novel and will become a standard book on its subject"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
Contents: Pt. I. 1789-1850. Beginnings -- Glimmerings of change -- Preparing the ground -- Pt. II. The 1850s. The conventions of sentiment -- On the color line -- Discovering self-consciousness -- Pt. III. Toward the 1870s. A neglected tradition -- From a theology of the feelings to an ethic of love.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-312) and index.
Contents: Pt. I. 1789-1850. Beginnings -- Glimmerings of change -- Preparing the ground -- Pt. II. The 1850s. The conventions of sentiment -- On the color line -- Discovering self-consciousness -- Pt. III. Toward the 1870s. A neglected tradition -- From a theology of the feelings to an ethic of love.
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