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