Contributor
Samuels, Shirley.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Descriptionxv, 470 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Note:National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood / J. Gerald Kennedy. - Fiction and Democracy / Paul Downes. - Democratic Fictions / Sandra M. Gustafson. - Engendering American Fictions / Martha J. Cutter and Caroline F. Levander. - Race and Ethnicity / Robert S. Levine. - Class / Philip Gould. - Sexualities / Valerie Rohy. - American Religion and Fiction, 1776-1865 / Paul Gutjahr. - Education and Polemic / Stephanie Foote. - Marriage and Contract in Early American Fiction / Naomi Morgenstern. - Transatlantic Ventures / Wil Verhoeven and Stephen Shapiro. - Other Languages, Other Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz. - Literary Histories / Michael Drexler and Ed White. - Reading and Breeding: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic / Christopher Lukasik. - The American Gothic / Marianne Noble. - Sensational Fiction / Shelley Streeby. - Melodrama and American Fiction / Lori Merish. - Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other "Crossings" in Fictionalized Slave Narratives / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. - Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction / Stephanie P. Browner. - Law and the American Novel / Laura H. Korobkin. - Labor and Fiction / Cindy Weinstein. - Words for Children / Carol J. Singley. - Dime Novels / Colin T. Ramsey and Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola. - Reform and Antebellum Fiction / Chris Castiglia. - The Problem of the City / Heather Roberts. - New Landscapes / Timothy Sweet. - The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Dana Luciano. - Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, John Pendleton Kennedy / Philip Barnard. - Captivity and Freedom / Eric Gary Anderson. - Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land / Bethany Schneider. - Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism / Katherine Adams. - Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery / Nancy Buffington. - The West / Edward Watts. - The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / David Rachels. - James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel / Wayne Franklin. - The Sea: Herman Melville & Moby Dick / Stephanie A. Smith. - National Narrative and National History / Russ Castronovo.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
