Reading the American novel, 1780-1865 - Samuels, Shirley (Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Preface -- Introduction to the American novel : from Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novels to Caroline Kirkland's wilderness -- Historical codes in literary analysis : the writing projects of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Hannah Crafts -- Women, blood, and contract : land claims in Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Sedgwick, and James Fenimore Cooper -- Black rivers, red letters, and white whales : mobility and desire in Catherine Williams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville -- Promoting the nation in James Fenimore Cooper and Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Women's worlds in the 19th century novel : Susan B. Warner, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Fanny Fern, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Wilson, and Louisa May Alcott -- Afterword.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Social history in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Social psychology in literature; Literature and society -- United States; Literature and history -- United States; Books and reading -- United States -- History; United States -- In literature