{"product_id":"the-oxford-history-of-the-novel-in-english-volume-5-the-american-novel-to-1870-9780195385359","title":"The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 5: The American Novel to 1870","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Oxford History of the Novel in English\u003c\/em\u003e is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the \"literary\" novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters. \"Dime novels\", literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most \"American\" of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Gerald Kennedy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/25\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 7.00w x 2.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195385359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2015 pg. 1311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Gerald Kennedy\u003c\/strong\u003e is Boyd Professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of \u003cem\u003ePoe, Death, and the Life of Writing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eImagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and American Identity\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the editor of the Oxford \u003cem\u003eHistorical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeland S. Person\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAesthetic Headaches: Women and a Masculine Poetics in Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHenry James and the Suspense of Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":41317994037363,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":475.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_996eeee1-a44a-4303-aa50-a6b435bbd605.jpg?v=1706714253","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-oxford-history-of-the-novel-in-english-volume-5-the-american-novel-to-1870-9780195385359","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}