9781405100649. Pre-owned: good condition. Hard cover. Language: english. Pages: 642. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 642 P. Contains: unspecified. Blackwell companions to literature and culture. A companion to american fiction 1865-1914 is a groundbreaking collection of essays written by leading critics for a wide audience of scholars students and interested general readers. 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
