ID - 77442315 TI - The Cambridge introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel PY - 2007 SN - 0521603994 0521843251 9780521603997 9780521843256 9780511611346 9780511480300 051148030X 0511479506 9780511479502 051161134X 9780511478628 0511478623 1107175232 0511477104 0511475659 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - American fiction KW - Literary form KW - Literature and history KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Popular literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - American literature KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77442315 AB - Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain: these are just a few of the world-class novelists of nineteenth-century America. The nineteenth-century American novel was a highly fluid form, constantly evolving in response to the turbulent events of the period and emerging as a key component in American identity, growth, expansion and the Civil War. Gregg Crane tells the story of the American novel from its beginnings in the early republic to the end of the nineteenth century. Treating the famous and many less well-known works, Crane discusses the genre's major figures, themes and developments. He analyses the different types of American fiction - romance, sentimental fiction, and the realist novel - in detail, while the historical context is explained in relation to how novelists explored the changing world around them. This comprehensive and stimulating introduction will enhance students' experience of reading and studying the whole canon of American fiction. ER -