A History of American Literature Since 1870

A History of American Literature Since 1870
Author: Fred Lewis Pattee
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN:

Fred Lewis Pattee was a literary critic and the first-ever professor of American literature. In this work, published in 1915, he gives an account of the developments in American literature in the 70s, 80s, and the beginning of the 90s years of the 19th century.

The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925

The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
Author: Florence Goyet
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-01-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1909254754

The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.

American History Through Literature, 1820-1870

American History Through Literature, 1820-1870
Author: Janet Gabler-Hover
Publisher: American History Through Liter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780684314600

These interdisciplinary works provide a standard reference for American literature in its broadest cultural context, offering a comprehensive overview of American history through a literary lens. The first set presents a unique overview of the critical period, which spans the early national era through the Civil War, and which witnessed the birth of a truly American literature. The second set covers the era following the Civil War through to the emergence of the United States as a world power at the end of the First World War.

Patriotic Gore

Patriotic Gore
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780393312560

Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.

A Brief History of American Literature

A Brief History of American Literature
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444392468

A Brief History of American Literature offers students and general readers a concise and up-to-date history of the full range of American writing from its origins until the present day. Represents the only up-to-date concise history of American literature Covers fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction, as well as looking at other forms of literature including folktales, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller and science fiction Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past twenty years Offers students an abridged version of History of American Literature, a book widely considered the standard survey text Provides an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of American literature, American studies and all those interested in the literature and culture of the United States

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature
Author: Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 927
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108643183

Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.

Frantic Panoramas

Frantic Panoramas
Author: Nancy Bentley
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-06-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780812241747

Bentley offers close readings of [William Dean Howells, Henry James] and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms.--From book jacket.

The American Novel 1870-1940

The American Novel 1870-1940
Author: Priscilla Wald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2014-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0195385349

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.