| ISBN13: | 9781032181035 |
| ISBN10: | 1032181036 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 228 pages |
| Size: | 229x152 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 700 |
The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel
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The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions.
The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including:
- What differentiates the American novel from its European predecessors and traditions from other parts of the world?
- How have the related myths of the American Dream and the Great American Novel affected understanding of the tradition over time?
- How do American novels by or about women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and members of lower social classes challenge the American cultural monomyth?
- How do experimental novels and eco-conscious novels alter the American novel tradition?
Rethinking historical trends and debates surrounding the American novel, this text delivers a persuasive case for why it?s important to reevaluate the American novelistic tradition. The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel offers a much-needed update to the history and future of this literary form.
Introduction
1. The Long, Annoying Shadow of Europe and the Search for Greatness
2. The American Dream: A Myth of Upward Mobility and Middle-Class Happiness
3. Domestic Discontentment: The Marriage Plot Anti-Dream
4. ?Not a Story to Pass On?: Slavery and the American Novel
5. Class, Race, and the Anti-Dream Narrative
6. Multiethnic America
7. Old (and New) Weird America: Experimentation and Voices from the Margins
8. Our Fragile Earth: Eco-Consciousness and the American Novel
