American Novel to 1870

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.

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Editions

1

Pages

640

ISBN

9780195385359

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