American fiction--19th century--History and criticism
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American fiction--18th century--History and criticism
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National characteristics, American, in literature
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Social history in literature
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Identity )Psychology( in literature
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Social psychology in literature
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Literature and society--United States
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Literature and history--United States
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Books and reading--United States--History
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United States--In literature
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
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PS
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374
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U5S26
2012
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
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Samuels, Shirley
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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.