Revolution and the Word : The Rise of the Novel in America.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction to the Expanded Edition -- PART ONE -- 1 Introduction: Toward a History of Texts -- 2 The Book in the New Republic -- 3 Ideology and Genre -- 4 Literacy, Education, and the Reader -- PART TWO -- 5 Commodity and Communication: The First American Novel -- 6 Privileging the Feme Covert: The Sociology of Sentimental Fiction -- 7 The Picaresque and the Margins of Political Discourse -- 8 Early American Gothic: The Limits of Individualism -- 9 Afterword: Texts as Histories -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Revolution and the Word remains the classic study of the co-emergence of the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. This expanded edition reframes this foundational study for the next generation of readers as it provides a new introductory survey and critique of the turbulent, controversial, and productive thinking in literary and cultural theory during the last two decades.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.