Reading the American novel, 1780-1865, Shirley Samuels
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- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Social psychology in literature
- Literature and society -- United States
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Literature and history -- United States
- American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Social history in literature
- Geschichte 1780-1865
- United States -- In literature
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Books and reading -- United States -- History
- Geschichte 1780-1865.
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Reading the American novel, 1780-1865, Shirley Samuels
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
748286898
Responsibility statement
Shirley Samuels
Series statement
Reading the novel
Table of contents
Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword
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