| Contents |
Introduction by Priscilla Wald and Michael A. Elliott -- The business of fiction. Textual commodities and authorial celebrities, by Sarah Robbins; The business of publishing American novels, by Catherine Turner; American readers and their novels, by Amy L. Blair -- The novel, 1870-1914. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Jonathan Arac; The novel and the Reconstruction amendments, by Jeannine Marie Delombard; Plessy and the novel, by Edlie Wong; Documenting the real, by Augusta Rohrbach; Journalism and the urban novel, by Betsy Klimasmith; Geographic fictions and the American novel, by Stephanie Foote; Science, medicine, technology and the novel, 1860-1915, by Jane F. Thrailkill; The religious novel, by Claudia Stokes; The Spanish-American War, U.S. expansion, and the novel, by Gretchen Murphy; The immigrant novel, by Joshua L. Miller; The American novel beyond English, by Orm Øverland; Henry James, the novel, and the mediascapes of modernity, by Jonathan Freedman -- The novel and the early cinema, by John Michael -- Genre fiction and the novel. The dime novel, by David Kazanjian; Serial fiction and the novel, by Jared Gardner; Fictionalizing children, children's fiction, by Caroline Levander; The American bestseller, by Leonard Cassuto; Crime and detective fiction after the Great War, by Lee Horsley; Comics and the novel, by Michael Moon; Science fiction in the United States, by Gerry Canavan -- The novel, 1915-1940. Modernism and the international novel, by Mark Scroggins; The novel and the rise of social science, by Susan Hegeman; The native novel, by Sean Kicummah Teuton; The novel after the Great War, by Paul Giles; The Harlem renaissance novel, by Zita Nunes; Faulkner and the world culture of the global South, by Ramón Saldívar; The Depression and the novel, by Sonnet Retman -- Hollywood and the American novel, by Patrick Jagoda; Native son and diasporic modernity, by Mikko Tuhkanen; Critical understandings. Mass culture, the novel, and the American left, by Benjamin Balthaser and Shelley Streeby; The making of American literature, by Elizabeth Renker; The future of the novel and public criticism in mid-century America, by Paula Rabinowitz. |
| Abstract |
"This volume highlights the development of the American novel within the context of global networks of influence and will cover topics like Reconstruction and the novel, the immigrant bildungsroman, early cinema and the novel, religious narratives, the innovations of Henry James, comics and the novel, and hardboiled detective fiction, among many others" -- Provided by publisher. |
