American Fiction 1865-1940.

"Brian Lee's study of American fiction from 1865 to 1940 draws on a wealth of material by, amongst others, Twain, James, Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Though the works of these writers have been closely scrutinised by postwar critics in Europe and America, few attempts have...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Lee, Brian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Longman Literature In English Series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part Part One: Reconstruction 1865-1900
  • chapter 1 Introduction
  • chapter 2 Mark Twain
  • chapter 3 Realism and Naturalism: Howells, Crane, Norris, Dreiser
  • chapter 4 The Regional Novelists
  • chapter 5 Impossible Futures and Impossible Pasts: Bellamy, Howells, Donnelly, London, Frederic
  • chapter 6 Henry James
  • part Part Two: 'The American Century' 1900-1940
  • chapter 7 Introduction
  • chapter 8 Realists, Radicals and the City: Sinclair, Poole, Farrell, Halper, Wright, Gold, Levin, Fuchs
  • chapter 9 Realists, Liberals and the Village: Anderson, Lewis, Cather, Glasgow, Tate, Caldwell, Steinbeck
  • chapter 10 Epics of America: Wolfe, Dos Passos
  • chapter 11 Modernism: Stein, Hemingway, Miller, West, Roth, Fitzgerald
  • chapter 12 William Faulkner.