This handbook offers students and researchers a compact
introduction to the nineteenth-century American novel in the light
of current debates, theoretical concepts, and critical
methodologies. The volume turns to the nineteenth century as a
formative era in American literary history, a time that saw both
the rise of the novel as a genre, and the emergence of an
independent, confident American culture. A broad range of concise
essays by European and American scholars demonstrates how some of
America's most well-known and influential novels responded to and
participated in the radical transformations that characterized
American culture between the early republic and the age of imperial
expansion. Part I consists of 7 systematic essays on key historical
and critical frameworks including debates aboutrace and
citizenship, transnationalism, environmentalism and print culture,
as well as sentimentalism, romance and the gothic, realism and
naturalism. Part II provides 22 essays on individual novels, each
combining an introduction to relevant cultural contexts with a
fresh close reading and the discussion of critical perspectives
shaped by literary and cultural theory.
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