Peter Rawlings

Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 3 (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: 9781351223362
• Artikelnr.: 49377210

Autorenporträt

Peter Rawlings

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Era of Discussion
Note on the Texts
1. Early American Novelists (1876)
2. New American Novels (1877)
3. Have We a Novelist? (1878)
4. Bret Harte and the Critics Ouly
1878)
5. Decline of the Atlantic (November
1878)
6. The Value of Novels Oanuary
1879)
7. Southern Novels (November
1879)
8. Sectional Fiction (1880)
9. Sir Walter Scott (1880)
10. Zola's Last Novel (1880)
11. Death of American Literature (December
1880)
12. A Southern Magazine (March
1881)
13. The Portrait of a Lacfy and Dr. Breen's Practice (1882)
14. Mothers in American Novels (1882)
15. William Dean Howells (1882)
16. Preface to Hot Plowshares (1882)
17. A Romantic Conundrum (May
1882)
18. Judge McGloin's New Book (August
1882)
19. Realistic Fiction (September
1882)
20. Novelists and Novels (December
1882)
21. Two Southern Novelists (1883)
22. The Native Element in American Fiction: Before the War (1883)
23. The Native Element in American Fiction: Since the War (1883)
24. Modern Fiction (1883)
25. Southern Literature (April
1883)
26. A Novel Novel (May
1883)
27. Southern Literature and Observer (May
1883)
28. Mark Twain on the Mississippi (May
1883)
29. Magazine Mysteries Ouly
1883)
30. Latterday Reviews (November
1883)
31. The American Element in Fiction (1884)
32. Dime-Novel Wickedness (April
1884)
33. The Valley of Unrest (May
1884)
34. Authors and Success (May
1884)
35. Mr. Cable's Dr. Sevier (October
1884)
36. Novel-Writing as a Science (1885)
37. Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (1885)
38. Why We Have No Great Novelists (1886)
39. Talent and Genius (March
1886)
40. Sins of Genius Gune
1886)
41. Books and Reviews (August
1886)
42. Pictures Vs. Texts (September
1886)
43. Eternal Literature (November
1886)
44. Journalism and Magazine Work (March
1887)
45. One of Mr. Howells' Realisms (April
1887)
46. The Questioning of Genius (April
1887)
47. The Spiritual Sense in Literature (May
1887)
48. Howells on Critics (May
1887)
49. The South as a Field for Fiction (1888)
50. Charles Brockden Brown (1888)
51. American Literature (1889)
52. The Centenary of James Fenimore Cooper (1889)
53. Our Unclean Fiction (1890)
54. Woman in American Literature (1890)
55. Mr. Howells's Latest Novels (1890)
56. The Novel and the Common School (1890)
57. Married Women in Fiction (1891)
58. Literary Centres (1894)
59. Literary Prophecy (1894)
60. The Local Novel (1894)
61. Provincialism (1894)
62. Two Principles in Recent American Fiction (1897)
63. The American Historical Novel (1897)
64. The Novel-Reading Habit (1898)
65. The True American Spirit in Literature (1899)
66. America as a Field for Fiction (1900)
Explanatory Notes
Alphabetical List of Authors
Index to Primary Texts