TY - BOOK AU - Samuels,Shirley ED - Wiley InterScience (Online service) TI - Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 T2 - Reading the novel SN - 9781444354355 AV - PS374.U5 S26 2012 U1 - 813/.209 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, UK, Malden, MA PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - Social history in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Social psychology in literature KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - Literature and history KW - Books and reading KW - History KW - fast KW - Literature KW - In literature KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Introduction to the American Novel -- Historical Codes in Literary Analysis -- Women, Blood, and Contract -- Black Rivers, Red Letters, and White Whales -- Promoting the Nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's Worlds in the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Afterword -- Further Reading -- Index; Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword; Electronic reproduction; Hoboken, N.J.; Wiley InterScience; 2011; Mode of access: World Wide Web; System requirements: Web browser; Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 29, 2011); Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444354355 ER -