Contributor
Bendixen, Alfred.
Imprint:Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Descriptionlxx, 633 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:The Development of the American novel: the transformations of genre / Alfred Bendixen -- The American novel: beginnings through the American renaissance / Maria Karafilis -- The American novel: realism and naturalism (1860-1920) / Jeanne Campbell Reesman -- Modernism and the American novel / Peter L. Hays -- Beyond modernism: the American novel between the world wars / Alfred Bendixen -- The Cold War novel: the American novel between 1945-1970 / Sharon Becker, Wendy Martin -- The Novel in a changing America: multiculturalism and other issues (1970-present) / Martha J. Cutter -- Fear, ambiguity, and transgression: the gothic novel in the United States / Charles L. Crow -- The American historical romance: from James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E.L. Doctorow / Emilly Miller Budick -- Making this whole nation feel: the sentimental novel in the United States / Marianne Noble -- Social protest, reform, and the American political novel / Chip Rhodes -- The American war novel tradition and the individual soldier / James H. Meredith -- From the sublime to the ridiculous: comic traditions in the American novel / Judith Yaross Lee -- Plotting a way home: the Jewish American novel / Juan J. Alonzo -- Chicano/a traditions in the American novel / Melvin Donalson -- The American novel of mystery, crime, and detection / Leonard Cassuto -- O brave new worlds: science fiction and the American novel / Eric S. Rabkin -- Dreaming of a white future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the origins of the utopian novel in the United States / Jean Pfaelzer -- Queer theory and the American novel / Deborah Carlin -- The American short-story cycle: out from the novel's shadow / Robert M. Luscher -- The Woman's law in Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / Monika Elbert -- Writ in water: the books of Melville's Moby-Dick / Wyn Kelley -- Wonder of wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / Susan Belasco -- Citational strategies and literary traditions: placing Henry James's The Portrait of a lady / Greg W. Zacharias -- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Fin: a child's search for comfort and peace / Michael J. Kiskis -- What women want: Kate Chopin's The Awakening / Emily Toth -- Private Fleming's various battles: Stephen Crane's The Red badge of courage / James Nagel -- Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the myth of the land / Richard Lehan -- Ground Zero: Faulkner's The Sound and the fury / Philip Weinstein -- A Bigger vision: Richard Wright's Native son and the great American novel / Andrew Warnes -- Our Invisible man: the aesthetic genealogy of US diversity / John Carlos Rowe -- The Visionary exuberance of Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March / Ben Siegel -- The Flesh and the word: Toni Morrison's Beloved / Valerie Smith -- A Different kind of love story: Cormac McCarthy's The Road / Olivia Carr Edenfield.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
