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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankTheCambridgeIntroductiontotheNineteenth-CenturyAmericanNovelStowe,Hawthorne,Melville,andTwain:thesearejustafewoftheworld-classnovelistsofnineteenth-centuryAmerica.Thenineteenth-centuryAmericannovelwasahighlyfluidform,const
2、antlyevolvinginresponsetotheturbulenteventsoftheperiodandemergingasakeycomponentinAmericanidentity,growth,expansion,andtheCivilWar.GreggCranetellsthestoryoftheAmericannovelfromitsbeginningsintheearlyrepublictotheendofthenineteenthcentury.Treatingthefa
3、mousandmanylesswell-knownworks,Cranediscussesthegenre’smajorfigures,themes,anddevelopments.HeanalyzesthedifferenttypesofAmericanfiction–romance,sentimentalfiction,andtherealistnovel–indetail,whilethehistoricalcontextisexplainedinrelationtohownovelistsexp
4、loredthechangingworldaroundthem.Thiscomprehensiveandstimulatingintroductionwillenhancestudents’experienceofreadingandstudyingthewholecanonofAmericanfiction.GreggCraneisAssociateProfessorofEnglishattheUniversityofMichigan.CambridgeIntroductionstoLiterat
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