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A Companion to American Fiction 1865 - 1914
Robert Paul Lamb (Editor), G. R. Thompson (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0064-9
Hardcover
616 pages
December 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars, students, and interested general readers.

* An exceptionally broad-ranging Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century.

* Contains 29 essays written by top scholars in the field.

* Each essay presents a synthesis of the best scholarly perspectives and offers an original perspective of its own.

* Divided into sections on historical traditions and genres, contexts and themes, and major authors.

* Covers a mixture of canonical and the non-canonical themes, authors, literatures, and critical approaches.

* Treats innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children's literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction.

* Written in clear, understandable, jargon-free English, suitable for the non-specialist.