a ISBN 978-01-9538535-9

a ISBN 0-19-538535-7

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number PS375

b Item number .A44 2014

a Dewey Classification 813/.209

a Title The American novel to 1870 /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Oxford :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University ,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014.

a Extent xiv, 640 pages ;

c Dimensions 26 cm.

a Series statement The Oxford history of the novel in English ;

v Volume number/sequential designation volume five.

a General note "General editor: Patrick Parrinder; Consulting editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac"--Title page verso.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 579-615) and indexes.

a Formatted contents note Introduction: The American Novel to 1870 -- Part 1: The Beginnings of the Novel in the United States. Before the American novel / Betsy Erkkila ; The sentimental novel and the seductions of postcolonial imitation / Karen A. Weyler ; Complementary strangers : Charles Brockden Brown, Susanna Rowson, and the early American sentimental Gothic / Marion Rust ; Trends and patterns in the US novel, 1800-1820 / Ed White ; Unsettling novels of the early republic / Leonard Tennenhouse -- Part 2: The Novel and American Nation-building. Walter Scott and the American historical novel / Fiona Robertson ; Revolutionary novels and the problem of literary nationalism / Joseph J. Letter ; Frontier novels, border wars, and Indian removal / Dana D. Nelson ; America's Europe : Irving, Poe, and the foreign subject / J. Gerald Kennedy -- Part 3: The American Publishing World and the Novel. Publishers, booksellers, and the literary market / Michael Winship ; The perils of authorship : literary property and nineteenth-century American fiction / Lara Langer Cohen and Meredith L. McGill ; Periodicals and the novel / Patricia Okker ; Cheap sensation : pamphlet potboilers and Beadle's dime novels / Shelley Streeby -- Part 4: Leading Novelists of Antebellum America. James Fenimore Cooper : beyond Leather-Stocking / Wayne Franklin ; Catharine Maria Sedgwick : domestic and national narratives / James L. Machor ; Hawthorne and the historical romance / Larry J. Reynolds ; Herman Melville / Jonathan Arac ; Harriet Beecher Stowe and the antislavery cause / John Ernest -- Part 5: Major Novels. The last of the Mohicans : race to citizenship / Leland S. Person ; The scarlet letter / Monika Elbert ; Moby-Dick and globalization / John Carlos Rowe ; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin / David S. Reynolds -- Part 6: Cultural Influences on the American Novel, 1820-1870. Transatlantic currents and postcolonial anxieties / Paul Giles ; The Transamerican novel / Anna Brickhouse ; Slavery, abolitionism, and the African American novel / Ivy G. Wilson ; Ethnic novels and the construction of the multicultural nation to 1870 / John Lowe ; Women's novels and the gendering of genius / Ren©♭e Bergland ; Male hybrids in classic American fiction / David Leverenz ; Studying nature in the antebellum novel / Timothy Sweet ; Novels of faith and doubt in a changing culture / Caroline Levander -- Part 7: Fictional Sub-genres. Temperance novels and moral reform / Debra J. Rosenthal ; Novels of travel and exploration / Gretchen Murphy ; The city mystery novel / Scott Peeples ; Surviving national disunion : Civil War novels of the 1860s / Paul Christian Jones.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 18th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American fiction

y Chronological subdivision 19th century

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature and society

y Chronological subdivision 18th century.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature and society

y Chronological subdivision 19th century.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

y Chronological subdivision Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element American literature

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social conflict in literature.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element National characteristics, American, in literature.

a Genre/form data or focus term Criticism, interpretation, etc.

a Genre/form data or focus term History.

a Personal name Kennedy, J. Gerald,

a Personal name Person, Leland S.,

a Personal name Parrinder, Patrick,

d Dates associated with a name 1944-

a Personal name Arac, Jonathan,

d Dates associated with a name 1945-

a Uniform title Oxford history of the novel in English ;