A Companion to the American Novel

Notes on Contributors ix
<p>Preface xix</p>
<p>Acknowledgments xxi</p>
<p>A Chronology of the American Novel xxii</p>
<p>Part I: Historical Developments 1</p>
<p>1 The Development of the American Novel: The Transformations of Genre 3<br />Alfred Bendixen</p>
<p>2 The American Novel: Beginnings Through the American Renaissance 19<br />Maria Karafilis</p>
<p>3 The American Novel: Realism and Naturalism (1860–1920) 42<br />Jeanne Campbell Reesman</p>
<p>4 Modernism and the American Novel 60<br />Peter L. Hays</p>
<p>5 Beyond Modernism: The American Novel Between the World Wars 76<br />Alfred Bendixen</p>
<p>6 The Cold War Novel: The American Novel Between 1945–1970 90<br />Sharon Becker and Wendy Martin</p>
<p>7 The Novel in a Changing America: Multiculturalism and Other Issues (1970–Present) 109<br />Martha J. Cutter</p>
<p>Part II: Genres and Traditions 127</p>
<p>8 Fear, Ambiguity, and Transgression: The Gothic Novel in the United States 129<br />Charles L. Crow</p>
<p>9 The American Historical Romance: From James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and E. L. Doctorow 147<br />Emily Miller Budick</p>
<p>10 Making This Whole Nation Feel: The Sentimental Novel in the United States 170<br />Marianne Noble</p>
<p>11 Social Protest, Reform, and the American Political Novel 187<br />Chip Rhodes</p>
<p>12 The American War Novel Tradition and the Individual Soldier 206<br />James H. Meredith</p>
<p>13 From the Sublime to the Ridiculous: Comic Traditions in the American Novel 218<br />Judith Yaross Lee</p>
<p>14 Plotting a Way Home: The Jewish American Novel 241<br />Derek Parker Royal</p>
<p>15 Chicano/a Traditions in the American Novel 259<br />Juan J. Alonzo</p>
<p>16 African American Traditions and the American Novel 274<br />Melvin Donalson</p>
<p>17 The American Novel of Mystery, Crime, and Detection 291<br />Leonard Cassuto</p>
<p>18 O Brave New Worlds: Science Fiction and the American Novel 309<br />Eric S. Rabkin</p>
<p>19 Dreaming of a White Future: Mary E. Bradley Lane, Edward Bellamy, and the Origins of the Utopian Novel in the United States 323<br />Jean Pfaelzer</p>
<p>20 Queer Theory and the American Novel 342<br />Deborah Carlin</p>
<p>21 The American Short–Story Cycle: Out From the Novel′s Shadow 357<br />Robert M. Luscher</p>
<p>Part III: Major Texts 373</p>
<p>22 The Woman′s Law in Hawthorne′s The Scarlet Letter 375<br />Monika Elbert</p>
<p>23 Writ in Water: The Books of Melville′s Moby–Dick 394<br />Wyn Kelley</p>
<p>24 Wonder of Wonders: Harriet Beecher Stowe′s Uncle Tom′s Cabin 408<br />Susan Belasco</p>
<p>25 Citational Strategies and Literary Traditions: Placing Henry James′s The Portrait of a Lady 422<br />Greg W. Zacharias</p>
<p>26 Mark Twain′s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Child′s Search for Comfort and Peace 443<br />Michael J. Kiskis</p>
<p>27 What Women Want: Kate Chopin′s The Awakening 454<br />Emily Toth</p>
<p>28 Private Fleming′s Various Battles: Stephen Crane′s The Red Badge of Courage 465<br />James Nagel</p>
<p>29 Lily′s Story: Edith Wharton′s House of Mirth 475<br />Kathy Fedorko</p>
<p>30 The Confessional Narration of Ernest Hemingway′s The Sun Also Rises 488<br />James Nagel</p>
<p>31 Fitzgerald′s The Great Gatsby and the Myth of the Land 499<br />Richard Lehan</p>
<p>32 Ground Zero: Faulkner′s The Sound and the Fury 510<br />Philip Weinstein</p>
<p>33 A Bigger Vision: Richard Wright′s Native Son and the Great American Novel 525<br />Andrew Warnes</p>
<p>34 Our Invisible Man: The Aesthetic Genealogy of US Diversity 537<br />John Carlos Rowe</p>
<p>35 The Visionary Exuberance of Saul Bellow′s The Adventures of Augie March 554<br />Ben Siegel</p>
<p>36 The Flesh and the Word: Toni Morrison′s Beloved 570<br />Valerie Smith</p>
<p>37 A Different Kind of Love Story: Cormac McCarthy′s The Road 582<br />Olivia Carr Edenfield</p>
<p>Selected Readings in the Genres of the American Novel 598</p>
<p>Index 610</p>