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Reading the American Novel 1865-1914; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward the "Great American Novel": Romance and Romanticism in the Age of Realism; 2 Of Realism and Reality: Definitions and Contexts; 3 Dramas of the Broken Teacup: American "Quiet" Realism; 4 The Nature of Naturalism: Definitions and Backgrounds; 5 Implacable Nature, Household Tragedy, and Epic Romance; 6 Frank Norris: The Beast Within; 7 The Rocking Horse Winners: Theodore Dreiser and Urban Naturalism; 8 Subjective Realism: Stephen Crane's Impressionist Fictions
9 Impressions of War: The Interior Battlefield10 Sense and Sensibility: Sentimental Domesticity and "New Woman's Fiction"; 11 Domestic Feminism: The Problematic Louisa May Alcott; 12 "All the Happy Endings": Marriage, Insanity, and Suicide; 13 Vulgarians at the Gate: Edith Wharton and the Collapse of Gentility; 14 Tea-Table as Jungle: Henry James and "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life"; 15 Economies of Pain: W. D. Howells; 16 The "Gilded Age": Genteel Critics and Militant Muckrakers; 17 What Is An American? Regionalism and Race; 18 The Territory Ahead: Emerging African American Voices
19 The "Dream of a Republic": War, Reconstruction, and Future History20 At the Modernist Margin: Mark Twain; Bibliographical Resources; Index
"An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th century Explores the relationship between the intellectual and artistic output of the time and the turbulent socio-political context"--