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THE OXFORD HISTORY OF THE NOVEL IN ENGLISH
VOLUME 5: THE AMERICAN NOVEL FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TO 1870 |
| By: |
J. Gerald Kennedy (Editor), Leland S. Person (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£210.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195385357 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195385359 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
25 July, 2014 |
| Series: |
Oxford History of the Novel in English |
| Pages: |
656 |
| Description: |
This volume in The Oxford History of the Novel in English reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
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5 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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