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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 5: The American Novel from Its Beginnings to 1870.

The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 5: The American Novel from Its Beginnings to 1870.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9780190252786
著者・編者Kennedy, J. Gerald / Person, Leland (eds.),
シリーズ (Oxford History of the Novel in English)
出版社 (Oxford University Press Inc, US)
出版年月2014
ページ数656 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A01-40175>

解説

The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new eleven-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic