A Companion to American Fiction, 1865 - 1914 [Hardcover]

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• An exceptionally broad-ranging and accessible Companion to the study of American fiction of the post-civil war period and the early twentieth century Brings together 29 essays by top scholars, each of which presents a synthesis of the best research and offers an original perspective
  
• 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
  
• Explores innovative topics, such as ecological literature and ecocriticism, children’s literature, and the influence of Darwin on fiction

Notes on Contributors xi

Acknowledgments xviii

Editors' Introduction 1
Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson

PART I Historical Traditions and Genres 13

1 The Practice and Promotion of American Literary Realism 15
Nancy Glazener

2 Excitement and Consciousness in the Romance Tradition 35
William J. Scheick

3 The Sentimental and Domestic Traditions, 1865–1900 53
Gregg Camfield

4 Morality, Modernity, and Malarial Restlessness : American Realism in its Anglo-European Contexts 77
Winfried Fluck

5 American Literary Nló(