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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 6: The American Novel 1879-1940

Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott

Abstract

The period 1870–1940 saw the consolidation of the nation following the Civil War and the rise of the United States as a world power. The transformation of the novel during these years accompanied, registered, and in some cases promoted these changes. The era witnessed the emergence of new reading publics, new means of producing and distributing novels, and new forms and genres. The proliferation of anthologies and criticism encouraged contemporary novelists to see themselves as writing within—or against—a national tradition as well as mass culture. Complementing and challenging that sense of t ... More

Keywords: novel, Civil War, anthologies, Modernism, Marxism, early cinema, religious narratives, Henry James, comics, detective fiction

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2014 Print ISBN-13: 9780195385342
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195385342.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Priscilla Wald, editor
Duke University

Michael A. Elliott, editor
Emory University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

General Editor’s Preface

Introduction

I The Business of Fiction

1 Textual Commodities and Authorial Celebrities

BY Sarah Robbins

2 The Business of Publishing American Novels

BY Catherine Turner

3 American Readers and Their Novels

BY Amy L. Blair

II The Novel, 1870–1914

4 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

BY Jonathan Arac

5 The Novel and the Reconstruction Amendments

BY Jeannine Marie Delombard

6 Plessy and the Novel

BY Edlie Wong

7 Documenting the Real

BY Augusta Rohrbach

8 Journalism and the Urban Novel

BY Betsy Klimasmith

9 Geographic Fictions and the American Novel

BY Stephanie Foote

10 Science, Medicine, Technology, and the Novel, 1860–1915

BY Jane F. Thrailkill

11 The Religious Novel

BY Claudia Stokes

12 The Spanish-American War, US Expansion, and the Novel

BY Gretchen Murphy

13 The Immigrant Novel

BY Joshua L. Miller

14 The American Novel beyond English

BY Orm Øverland

15 Henry James, the Novel, and the Mediascapes of Modernity

BY Jonathan Freedman

16 The Novel and the Early Cinema

BY John Michael

III Genre Fiction and the Novel

17 The Dime Novel

BY David Kazanjian

18 Serial Fiction and the Novel

BY Jared Gardner

19 Fictionalizing Children, Children’s Fiction

BY Caroline Levander

20 The American Bestseller

BY Leonard Cassuto

21 Crime and Detective Fiction after the Great War

BY Lee Horsley

22 Comics and the Novel

BY Michael Moon

23 Science Fiction in the United States

BY Gerry Canavan

IV The Novel, 1915–1940

24 Modernism and the International Novel

BY Mark Scroggins

25 The Novel and the Rise of Social Science

BY Susan Hegeman

26 The Native Novel

BY Sean Kicummah Teuton

27 The Novel after the Great War

BY Paul Giles

28 The Harlem Renaissance Novel

BY Zita Nunes

29 Faulkner and the World Culture of the Global South

BY Ramón Saldívar

30 The Depression and the Novel

BY Sonnet Retman

31 Hollywood and the American Novel

BY Patrick Jagoda

32 Native Son and Diasporic Modernity

BY Mikko Tuhkanen

V Critical Understandings

33 Mass Culture, the Novel, and the American Left

BY Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby

34 The Making of American Literature

BY Elizabeth Renker

35 The Future of the Novel and Public Criticism in Mid-Century America

BY Paula Rabinowitz

End Matter

Secondary Bibliography: Quoted Sources

Index of American Novelists, 1870–1940

General Index