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the oxford history of the novel in english The American Novel 1870–1940 The Oxford History of the Novel in English general editor: patrick parrinder advisory editor (us volumes): jonathan arac Volumes Published and in Preparation 1. Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750, edited by Thomas Keymer 2. English and British Fiction 1750–1820, edited by Peter Garside and Karen O’Brien 3. The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820–1880, edited by John Kucich and Jenny Bourne Taylor 4. The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880–1940, edited by Patrick Parrinder and Andrzej Ga˛siorek 5. The American Novel to 1870, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Leland S. Person 6. The American Novel 1870–1940, edited by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott 7. British and Irish Fiction since 1940, edited by Peter Boxall and Bryan Cheyette 8. American Fiction since 1940, edited by Cyrus R. K. Patell and Deborah Lindsay Williams 9. World Fiction in English to 1950, edited by Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams 10. The Novel in English in Asia since 1945 11. The Novel in Africa and the Atlantic World since 1950, edited by Simon Gikandi 12. The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, edited by Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte the oxford history of the novel in english Volume Six The American Novel 1870–1940 edited by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott 1 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The American novel, 1870–1940 / edited by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott. p. cm. — (The Oxford history of the novel in English; v. 6) “The Oxford history of the novel in English; General Editor: Patrick Parrinder; Consulting Editor (US volumes): Jonathan Arac” — Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–538534–2 1. American fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Literature and society—United States—History—19th century. 4. Literature and society—United States—History—20th century. 5. National characteristics, American, in literature. 6. Transnationalism in literature. I. Wald, Priscilla, editor. II. Elliott, Michael A., editor. III. Parrinder, Patrick, series. IV. Arac, Jonathan, 1945– editor. PS377.A545 2013 813’.409—dc23 2013022470 9780195385342 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Acknowledgments ix List of Contributors xi General Editor’s Preface xiii Introduction: By Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott xv I: The Business of Fiction 1. Textual Commodities and Authorial Celebrities 3 By Sarah Robbins 2. The Business of Publishing American Novels 20 By Catherine Turner 3. American Readers and Their Novels 36 By Amy L. Blair II: The Novel, 1870–1914 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 57 By Jonathan Arac 5. The Novel and the Reconstruction Amendments 69 By Jeannine Marie Delombard 6. Plessy and the Novel 86 By Edlie Wong 7. Documenting the Real 103 By Augusta Rohrbach 8. Journalism and the Urban Novel 120 By Betsy Klimasmith 9. Geographic Fictions and the American Novel 135 By Stephanie Foote vi contents 10. Science, Medicine, Technology, and the Novel, 1860–1915 151 By Jane F. Thrailkill 11. The Religious Novel 168 By Claudia Stokes 12. The Spanish-American War, US Expansion, and the Novel 184 By Gretchen Murphy 13. The Immigrant Novel 200 By Joshua L. Miller 14. The American Novel beyond English 218 By Orm Øverland 15. Henry James, the Novel, and the Mediascapes of Modernity 234 By Jonathan Freedman 16. The Novel and the Early Cinema 255 By John Michael III: Genre Fiction and the Novel 17. The Dime Novel 273 By David Kazanjian 18. Serial Fiction and the Novel 289 By Jared Gardner 19. Fictionalizing Children, Children’s Fiction 304 By Caroline Levander 20. The American Bestseller 319 By Leonard Cassuto 21. Crime and Detective Fiction after the Great War 336 By Lee Horsley 22. Comics and the Novel 353 By Michael Moon 23. Science Fiction in the United States 370 By Gerry Canavan IV. The Novel, 1915–1940 24. Modernism and the International Novel 389 By Mark Scroggins 25. The Novel and the Rise of Social Science 405 By Susan Hegeman 26. The Native Novel 423 By Sean Kicummah Teuton contents vii 27. The Novel after the Great War 436 By Paul Giles 28. The Harlem Renaissance Novel 453 By Zita Nunes 29. Faulkner and the World Culture of the Global South 469 By Ramón Saldívar 30. The Depression and the Novel 484 By Sonnet Retman 31. Hollywood and the American Novel 501 By Patrick Jagoda 32. Native Son and Diasporic Modernity 517 By Mikko Tuhkanen V: Critical Understandings 33. Mass Culture, the Novel, and the American Left 533 By Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby 34. The Making of American Literature 549 By Elizabeth Renker 35. The Future of the Novel and Public Criticism in Mid-Century America 566 By Paula Rabinowitz Secondary Bibliography: Quoted Sources 583 Index of American Novelists, 1870–1940 605 General Index 614 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We would first like to thank the many contributors to this volume. We refer not only to those scholars who actually penned the chapters of this book, but all of the members of the vibrant Americanist communities that sustain our reading and scholarship year after year. We feel fortunate to have so many gifted interlocutors, and we are constantly impressed with the intellectual generosity of our scholarly peers. The work contained here represents just a small introduction to a truly rich body of work on a period of American literary history that continues to fascinate us. We also express our gratitude to Lynne Feeley and Sean Ward, whose labors on these essays and the list of works cited have made this book have made this book much better than it would have been otherwise. They repeatedly came to our aid with skill and speed. We are grateful as well to Patrick Parrinder and Jonathan Arac for inviting us to undertake this project and for their editorial advice and guidance. Likewise, we would like to thank Brendan O’Neill and his colleagues at Oxford University Press, both for their support of this series and the assistance that they have given us throughout this editorial process. Finally, we want to acknowledge the generosity of our institutions, Duke University and Emory University, for both the financial and intellectual support that made this project possible. P. W. and M. A. E.

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