The Oxford History of the Novel in English - Volume 5: The American Novel from Its Beginnings to 1870 (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford History of the Novel in English
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	July 2014
Editors:	J. Gerald Kennedy (Boyd Professor) • Leland Person (Professor of English)
Dimensions:	257 x 185 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	656
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-538535-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-19-538535-7
Barcode:	9780195385359

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