The Columbia history of the American novel

Elliott, Emory, 1942-2009 (Added Author). Davidson, Cathy N., 1949- (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0231073607 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780231073608 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 905 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1991.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [821]-846) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The early American novel / Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky -- Autobiography and the early novel / Nellie McKay -- The book marketplace I / Michael T. Gilmore -- The romance / Terence Martin -- Romance and race / Joan Dayan -- Domesticity and fiction / Lora Romero -- Fiction and reform I / Robert S. Levine -- Realism / Robert Shulman -- Fiction and the science of society / Susan Mizruchi -- Fiction and reform II / Philip Brian Harper -- Nation, region, and empire / Amy Kaplan -- Gender and fiction / Elizabeth Ammons -- Popular forms I / Christine Bold -- Modernist eruptions / Margot Norris -- American proletarianism / Paul Lauter -- Popular forms II / Bill Brown -- Ethnicity and the marketplace / Thomas J. Ferraro -- Race and region / Thadious M. Davis -- Fiction of the West / James H. Maguire -- Technology and the novel / Cecelia Tichi.