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Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_1_pretoc FinalProof page i 28.6.2005 11:18am A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914 Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_1_pretoc FinalProof page ii 28.6.2005 11:18am Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Thisseriesofferscomprehensive,newlywrittensurveysofkeyperiodsandmovements, and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. 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R. THOMPSON Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_1_pretoc FinalProof page iv 28.6.2005 11:18am (cid:1)2005byBlackwellPublishingLtd exceptforeditorialmaterialandorganization(cid:1)2005byRobertPaulLamb andG.R.Thompson BLACKWELLPUBLISHING 350MainStreet,Malden,MA02148–5020,USA 9600GarsingtonRoad,OxfordOX42DQ,UK 550SwanstonStreet,Carlton,Victoria3053,Australia TherightofRobertPaulLambandG.R.ThompsontobeidentifiedastheAuthorsoftheEditorial MaterialinthisWork,includingcaptionsandaccompanyingtextfortheillustrations,hasbeen assertedinaccordancewiththeUKCopyright,Designs,andPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingor otherwise,exceptaspermittedbytheUKCopyright,Designs,andPatentsAct1988,withoutthe priorpermissionofthepublisher. Firstpublished2005byBlackwellPublishingLtd 12005 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData AcompaniontoAmericanfiction,1865–1914/editedbyRobertPaulLambandG.R.Thompson. p.cm.—(Blackwellcompanionstoliteratureandculture;35) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13:978-1-4051-0064-9(hardcover:alk.paper) ISBN-10:1-4051-0064-8(hardcover:alk.paper) 1. Americanfiction—19thcentury—Historyandcriticism—Handbooks,manuals,etc. 2.Americanfiction—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism—Handbooks,manuals,etc.I.Lamb, RobertPaul,1951–II.Thompson,GaryRichard,1937–III.Series. PS377.C6652005 813’.409—dc22 2004029758 AcataloguerecordforthistitleisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. Setin11/13ptGaramond3 bySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedandboundintheUnitedKingdom byTJInternationalLtd,Padstow,Cornwall PictureresearchbyHelenNash Thepublisher’spolicyistousepermanentpaperfrommillsthatoperateasustainableforestry policy,andwhichhasbeenmanufacturedfrompulpprocessedusingacid-freeandelementary chlorine-freepractices.Furthermore,thepublisherensuresthatthetextpaperandcoverboardused havemetacceptableenvironmentalaccreditationstandards. Forfurtherinformationon BlackwellPublishing,visitourwebsite: www.blackwellpublishing.com Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_1_pretoc FinalProof page v 28.6.2005 11:18am In loving memory of David Lamb and Lena Siegel Lamb and Raleigh Harmon Fosbrink and Virginia Thompson Fosbrink Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_2_toc FinalProof page vii 28.6.2005 11:22am Contents List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xvii Editors’ Introduction 1 Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13 1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15 Nancy Glazener 2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35 William J. Scheick 3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53 Gregg Camfield 4 Morality, Modernity, and ‘‘Malarial Restlessness’’: American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77 Winfried Fluck 5 American Literary Naturalism 96 Christophe Den Tandt 6 American Regionalism: Local Color, National Literature, Global Circuits 119 June Howard Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_2_toc FinalProof page viii 28.6.2005 11:22am viii Contents 7 Women Authors and the Roots of American Modernism 140 Linda Wagner-Martin 8 The Short Story and the Short-Story Sequence, 1865–1914 149 J. Gerald Kennedy PART II Contexts and Themes 175 9 Ecological Narrative and Nature Writing 177 S. K. Robisch 10 ‘‘The Frontier Story’’: The Violence of Literary History 201 Christine Bold 11 Native American Narratives: Resistance and Survivance 222 Gerald Vizenor 12 Representing the Civil War and Reconstruction: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus 240 Kathleen Diffley 13 Engendering the Canon: Women’s Narratives, 1865–1914 260 Grace Farrell 14 Confronting the Crisis: African American Narratives 279 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. 15 Fiction’s Many Cities 296 Sidney H. Bremer 16 Mapping the Culture of Abundance: Literary Narratives and Consumer Culture 318 Sarah Way Sherman 17 Secrets of the Master’s Deed Box: Narrative and Class 340 Christopher P. Wilson 18 Ethnic Realism 356 Robert M. Dowling 19 Darwin, Science, and Narrative 377 Bert Bender 20 Writing in the ‘‘Vulgar Tongue’’: Law and American Narrative 395 William E. Moddelmog Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_2_toc FinalProof page ix 28.6.2005 11:22am Contents ix 21 Planning Utopia 411 Thomas Peyser 22 American Children’s Narrative as Social Criticism, 1865–1914 428 Gwen Athene Tarbox PART III Major Authors 449 23 An Idea of Order at Concord: Soul and Society in the Mind of Louisa May Alcott 451 John Matteson 24 America Can Break Your Heart: On the Significance of Mark Twain 468 Robert Paul Lamb 25 William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection, Skepticism, Disillusion 499 Michael Anesko 26 Henry James in a New Century 518 John Carlos Rowe 27 Toward a Modernist Aesthetic: The Literary Legacy of Edith Wharton 536 Candace Waid and Clare Colquitt 28 Sensations of Style: The Literary Realism of Stephen Crane 557 William E. Cain 29 Theodore Dreiser and the Force of the Personal 572 Clare Virginia Eby Index 587 Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_3_posttoc FinalProof page x 28.6.2005 11:24am Illustrations 5.1 The textile workers’strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts 106 6.1 Internal improvements 126 10.1 Chinese workers building the Central Pacific Railroad 209 10.2 The revolution in agriculture 214 11.1 Chief Tatanka Iyotanka of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux 232 12.1 A new kind of bondage 255 15.1 Jewish immigrants on Hester Street in New York City 302 16.1 The noonday shopping crowd on State Street in Chicago 334 18.1 ‘‘Yearning to be free’’ 368 24.1 ‘‘Huck and Jim in their final years’’ 489 25.1 The Dean of American letters 510 27.1 Edith Wharton and the new woman author 550 All captions and accompanying text are by the editors. Lamb/CompaniontoAmericanFiction 1405100648_3_posttoc FinalProof page xi 28.6.2005 11:24am Notes on Contributors Michael Anesko teaches English and American literature at Pennsylvania State University.Hisbooksinclude‘‘FrictionwiththeMarket’’:HenryJamesandtheProfession of Authorship (1986) and Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells (1997). Bert Bender is Professor of English at Arizona State University. His books include Evolutionandthe‘‘SexProblem’’:AmericanNarrativesduringtheEclipseofDarwin(2004), TheDescentofLove:DarwinandtheTheoryofSexualSelectioninAmericanFiction,1871– 1926 (1996), and Sea-Brothers: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present (1988). ChristineBoldisProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofGuelph,Canada.Sheisthe authorofSellingtheWildWest:PopularWesternFiction,1860–1960(1987)andWriters, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers’ Project in Massachusetts (2005), and co- authorofRememberingWomenMurderedbyMen:MemorialsacrossCanadabytheCultural Memory Group (2006). Currently, she is editing the Dictionary of Literary Biography volume on American dime novelists and writing a revisionist history of popular Westerns, 1860–1920. Sidney H. Bremer is Campus Dean and Executive Officer at the University of Wisconsin at Marinette. A Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin Colleges, she earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She has published on women’s, ethnic, and urban studies and US literature in PMLA, Soundings, and other journals, and is the author of Urban Intersections: Meetings of Life and Literature inUnitedStatesCities(1992)andtheco-editorofRevolutioninArtandIdeasattheTurn of the Twentieth Century (1993).
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