Peter Rawlings

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 2 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 1320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351223409
• Artikelnr.: 49377668

Autorenporträt

Peter Rawlings

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Great American Novel
Note on the Texts
1. The Evening Book (1851)
2. James Fenimore Cooper (1851)
3. The Moral and Artistic in Prose Fiction (1851)
4. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
5. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)
6. Anglo-American Literature and Manners (1852)
7. Pierre; or
The Ambiguities (1852)
8. William Gilmore Simms
LL.D. (1852)
9. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853)
10. Preface to The Yemassee (1835)
11. Novels: Their Meaning and Mission (1854)
12. Advertisement to Richard Hurdis (1855)
13. An Inquiry into the Present State of Southern Literature (1856)
14. A Perceptible Falling off of Sensation Books: What is Likely to Take Their Place? (1856)
15. Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
by Geo. W. Curtis of Putnam's Magazine (1856)
16. The Duty of Southern Authors (1856)
17. Ideals in Modern Fiction (1857)
18. Southern Literature (1857)
19. Caroline M. Kirkland (1857)
20. Catharine M. Sedgwick (1857)
21. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1857)
22. Lydia M. Child (1857)
23. Matter of Fact and Matter of Fiction (1857)
24. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1860)
25. James Fenimore Cooper (1862)
26. War and Literature (1862)
27. Observations on Our Literary Prospects (1863)
28. Jane Austen (1863)
29. Literature
Love
and Marriage (1864)
30. Novels and Novel-Writings (1864)
31. Miss Ravenel's Conversionfrom Secession to Loyalty (1867)
32. Miss Ravenel's Conversion (1867)
33. The Decline of the Novel (1868)
34. Literature Truly American (1868)
35. Poe and Hawthorne (1868)
36. The Great American Novel (1868)
37. Americanism in Literature (1870)
38. American Novels (1872)
39. Middlemarch (1873)
40. Mark Twain (1874)
41. Growth of the Novel (1874)
42. The Novel and Its Future (1874)
43. Ivan Turgerueff (1874)
Explanatory Notes