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I THE CAMBRIDGEI HISTORY OFII THE AMERICAN NOVELIIIJ General Fdlto?I LEONARD CASSUTO

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CAMBRIDGE UNIvERSITY PRESSCambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town,Singapore, So Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo. Mexico City

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ISBN 978O52t-899079 (hardback)American fiction History and criticism. I, Cassuto,

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List of illustrations page xiiList of tables xiii

List of contributors xivAcknowledgments xxivNote on the text xxvi

General introduction iLEONARD CASSUTO

PART ONEINVENTING THE AMERICAN NOVELintroduction: inventing the American novel ip

BENJAMIN REISS

Transatlantic currents and the invention of the American novel 22PAUL GILES

2 Susanna Rowson, Hannah Webster Foster, and the seduction novelin the early IfS 37ANNA MAE DUANE

3 . Charles Brockden Brown and the novels of the early republic yiBRYAN WATERMAN

The novel in the antebellum book market 67RONALD J. ZBORAY AND MARY SARACINO ZBORAY

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5 American land, American landscape, American novels 88T IMOTHY SWEET

6 Cooper and the idea of the Indian 103SANDRA M. GUSTAFSON

The nineteenth-century histurical novel rWINFRIEI) FLUCK

S Hawthorne and the aesthetics of American romanceJONATHAN ARAC

9 Melville and the novel of the sea 151HESTER BLUM

so Religion and the nineteenth-century Amer ic an n o v el 167GREGORY S. JACKSON

Manhood and the early American novel 192MILETTE SHAMIR

12 Sentimentalism 209CINDY WEINSTEIN

13 Supernatural novels 221EL IZA BETH TO U NC

14 - Imagining the South 236JENNIFER RAE GREESON

15 Stowe, race, and the antebellum American novel 252JOHN ERNEST

The early African American novel 267ROBERT S. LEVINE

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PART TWOREALISM, PROTEST, ACCOMMODATIONIntroduction: realism, protest, accommodation 285

CLARE VIRGINIA FEY

17 Realism and radicalism: the school of 1-lowells 289MICHAEL A. ELLIOTT

iS James, pragmatism. and the realist ideal 304CARRIE TIRADO BRAMEN

19 Theories of the American novel in the age of realism 322LAWRENCE BUELL

20 The novel in postbellum print culture 33NANCY GLAZENER

21 Twain, class, and the Gilded Age 365ANDREW LAWSON

22 Dreiser and the cityJUDE DAVIES

23 Novels of civic protest 39CECELIA rICHI

24 - Novels of American business, industry, and consumerism 409DAVID A. ZIMMERMAN

25 New Americans and the immigrant novel 426TIM PRCHAL

26- Cather and the regional imagination 437TOM LUTZ

27 Wharton, marriage, and the New Woman 452JENNIFER L. FLEISSNER

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28 The postbellum race novel 470ROBERT F. REID-PHARR

29 The African American novel a ft er Reconstruction 484BARBARA McCASKILL

30 The rise of naturalismDONNA CAMPBELL

35 Imagining the frontier ;iSTEPHANiE LB MENAGER

32 Imperialism, Orientalism, an d empire 537RUSS CASTRONOVO

33 The hemisphe r ic novel in the postrevolutionary er a ;yGRETCHEN MURPHY

34 The womans novel beyond sentimentalism 571ELIZABETH NOLAN

35 D ime n o ve ls and the rise ofmassmarket genres 586SHELLEY STREEBY

36 Readers and reading groups 600BARBARA HOCHMAN

PART THREEMODERNISM AND BEYOND

Introduction: modernism and beyond 617CLARE VIRGINIA EBY

37 Stein, Hemingway, and American modernisms 622PETER NICHOLLS

38 The Great Gatsby and the 59205 639KIRK CURNUTT

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39 Philosophy and the American novel 653ROBERT CHODAT

40 Steinbeck and the proletarian novel 671ALAN M, WALD

41 The nove l, mass culture, mass media 686MARK MeGURL

Wright, Hurston, and the direction of the African American novel 700VALERIE BABB

Ellison and Baldwin: aesthet ic s , act iv ism, and the social order 718LOVALERIE KING

44 Religion and the twentieth-century Ame r ic a n novel 732AMY HUNGERFORD

45 Faulkner and the Southem novel 750CANDACE WAID

46 Law and the Ame r ic a n novel 767GREGG CRANE

47 Twentieth-century publishing and the rise of the paperback 781JAMES L, W WEST III

48 The novel of c rime, mys t er y , and suspense 798SEAN MCANN

49 US novels and US wars 813JOHN CARLOS ROWE

Science fiction 832PRISCILLA WALD

Female genre fiction in the twentieth century 847PAMELA REGIS

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Contents I Contents52 Children s novels 861 63 The use of the Asian American novel 1046

JULIA MICKENBLRG SLSSN KOSHY

The American noel and the r ise of the suburbs 8c I om Moirison and the post cnil rights Jncan rnerican nosel 1064C TH ER IN E i R( A MICK EL HILL

4 The Jewish great American novel 893 6, Hi. mispheric mc nc in nose is 1084\DREV HOBLREK RODR1( 0 L iS O

55 The Beats and the 196os 909 ot The isorldmg of the irnericin noici io 6ROBERT FA(CEN B RUC E R OBB INS

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56 Literary femimsms 925 67 Thc Native American fradition 1107MARIA FARLAND 11 SEAN KICUMMAH TLUTON

57 Reimagining genders and sexuahties 941 1 68 Contemporary ecofiction 1122ELIZABL1 H FREEMSN JONATHAN LEV1NIPART FOUR 69 Graphic novels II)

CONTEMPORARY FORM TIONS JS N BALIINSo Tis cnticth and tss mt. first centuls lite i i rs eoni ITiufl i ties 1154Introduction ontenipoI in formations 9)0

DENEL REKBIiRE SEDOBENJAMIN REISS

I \ histor of thc furuit of nii run i 116558 Postmodern novels (164ROBERr COOVERURSULA K. HEISE

,q The nonfiction no s ci S6 l tk tt nblwg1a; In jiDiSID Si. HMID IlidtS 10 6

ho Disabih and the American nosel 1002DAVID T. MITCHELL AND SHARON L. SNYDER

Sf6i Model mmorities and the minority model the neoliberal novel 1016

WALTER B EN N M IC H SFLSSf

62 The American borderlands novel 1031RAM0NSA1DIVSR

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