Founded in Fiction (eBook)

The Uses of Fiction in the Early United States

Thomas Koenigs (Autor)

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2021
323 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21982-0 (ISBN)

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An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republicone that challenges the ';rise of the novel' narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-reading would mislead readers about reality. Founded in Fiction argues that this suspicion made early American writers especially attuned to one of fiction's defining but often overlooked featuresits fictionality. Thomas Koenigs shows how these writers explored the unique types of speculative knowledge that fiction could create as they sought to harness different varieties of fiction for a range of social and political projects.Spanning the years 17891861, Founded in Fiction challenges the ';rise of novel' narrative that has long dominated the study of American fiction by highlighting how many of the texts that have often been considered the earliest American novels actually defined themselves in contrast to the novel. Their writers developed self-consciously extranovelistic varieties of fiction, as they attempted to reform political discourse, shape women's behavior, reconstruct a national past, and advance social criticism. Ambitious in scope, Founded in Fiction features original discussions of a wide range of canonical and lesser-known writers, including Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Leonora Sansay, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Montgomery Bird, George Lippard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs.By reframing the history of the novel in the United States as a history of competing varieties of fiction, Founded in Fiction shows how these fictions structured American thinking about issues ranging from national politics to gendered authority to the intimate violence of slavery.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin • Allegory • Allusion • americans • Anecdote • Antebellum • Arthur Gordon Pym • Artifice • Autobiography • Biography • Character (arts) • Charles Brockden Brown • Charlotte Temple • Clarissa • Classic • Credulity • Criticism • Delusion • development of American novel • Digression • Disenchantment • Disgust • early American Literature • Edgar Allan Poe • English novel • Epistemology • Explanation • Feeling • female conduct • Fiction • Genre • Genre Fiction • Gothic fiction • historical fiction • Historical Romance • Historiography • History of the novel • Hoax • Hope Leslie • Ideology • inner life • Jacksonian • Judith Sargent Murray • Leisure • Literariness • Literary criticism • Literary History • literary hoaxes • Literary Realism • Literature • Memoir • Misery (novel) • Modern Fiction (essay) • Morality • Narration • narrative • newspaper • Non-fiction • Novel • novelist • novelization • Paratext • Parody • Persuasion (novel) • Philosopher • Poetry • political fiction • Politician • Politics • preface • Princeton University Press • Print Culture • printing • Probability • Protagonist • Publication • Public sphere • Publishing • Pym • Pym (novel) • Quixotism • Republicanism • rhetoric • Robert Montgomery Bird • Romance Novel • Satire • sensibility • Sentimentalism (literature) • Sheppard Lee • skepticism • slave interiority • Slave Narrative • slave narratives • Slavery • Social activity • Social Criticism • Social Movement • Social Transformation • Suffering • Superiority (short story) • terence • The Algerine Captive • The Coquette • The Female Quixote • The Heroic Slave • theory • Theory of the Novel • The Other Hand • The Power of Sympathy • The scarlet letter • The Various • Thought • truth claim • Uncertainty • Uncle Tom’s Cabin • Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel) • Wieland (novel) • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21982-6 / 0691219826
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21982-0 / 9780691219820