Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1
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Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

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Americans on Fiction, 1776-1900 Volume 1

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A collection of prefaces, reviews and articles by Americans on American and European fiction. Charted in these three volumes, which span 1776 to 1900, is the movement from anxious defences of the novel as a necessary vehicle of truth and morality to fully-fledged theoretical exfoliations.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781138750128
eBook ISBN
9781351223447
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface and Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction: "Who Reads an American Book?"
  7. Note on the Texts
  8. 1 Preface to The Power of Sympathy (1789)
  9. 2 Preface to Charlotte Temple (1791)
  10. 3 Preface to The Algerine Captive (1797)
  11. 4 Advertisement to Wieland (1798)
  12. 5 To the Public (1799)
  13. 6 The Difference between History and Romance (1800)
  14. 7 Novel Reading (1804)
  15. 8 Preface to The Gamesters (1805)
  16. 9 On the Cause of the Popularity of Novels (1807)
  17. 10 American Language and Literature (1815)
  18. 11 Reflections on the Literary Delinquency of America (1815)
  19. 12 Brown's Life and Writings (1819)
  20. 13 National Literature (1820)
  21. 14 James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy (1822)
  22. 15 Three Prefaces to A New-England Tale (1822-1852)
  23. 16 Introduction to The Spectre of the Forest (1823)
  24. 17 A Word to the Reader (1823)
  25. 18 The Wilderness and The Spectre of the Forest (1824)
  26. 19 Preface to Redwood (1824)
  27. 20 Redwood (1825)
  28. 21 Preface and Unpublished Preface to Rachel Dyer (1828)
  29. 22 American Literature (1833)
  30. 23 English Literature (1833)
  31. 24 Themes for Western Fiction (1833)
  32. 25 Discourse on the West (1834)
  33. 26 Southern Literature (1834)
  34. 27 American Literature: Its Impediments (1835)
  35. 28 A Biographical Sketch of James Fenimore Cooper (1838)
  36. 29 Literature of Virginia (1838)
  37. 30 Ripley's Specimens (1838)
  38. 31 A Discourse on American Literature (1838)
  39. 32 Confessions of a Novel Reader (1839)
  40. 33 The Inferiority of American Literature (1840)
  41. 34 Modern Fiction (1842)
  42. 35 Cooper, His Genius and Writings (1842)
  43. 36 Cooper's Wyandotté (1843)
  44. 37 Cheap Literature: Its Character and Tendencies (1844)
  45. 38 Literary Prospects for 1845 (1845)
  46. 39 American Literature: The Present State of American Letters; The Prospect and Means of Their Improvement (1845)
  47. 40 American Letters—Their Character and Advancement (1845)
  48. 41 Americanism in Literature (1845)
  49. 42 Caroline M. Kirkland (1846)
  50. 43 Catharine M. Sedgwick (1846)
  51. 44 The Wigwam and the Cabin (1846)
  52. 45 The Need for a National Literature (1847)
  53. 46 Longfellow's Kavanagh: Nationality in Literature (1849)
  54. Explanatory Notes

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