American Novel to 1870
by J. Gerald Kennedy, Leland S. Person
American fiction, history and criticism, 19th centuryLiterature and societyAmerican literature (collections), colonial period, ca. 1600-1775National characteristics in literatureAmerican fictionHistory and criticismHistoryAmerican literature
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.
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