Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

by Darrow, Kathy D.; Whitaker, Russel

• ISBN13: 9780787698539
• ISBN10: 0787698539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-29
• Publisher: Gale / Cengage Learning

Summary

A convenient source of critical commentary on the careers and works of acclaimed authors who died between 1800 and 1899. A cumulative title index is published separately (included in subscription).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Literary Criticism Series Advisory Board	p. xiii
The American Literary Renaissance
Introduction	p. 1
Representative Works	p. 1
Overviews	p. 3
Race and Revolution	p. 22
Gender	p. 41
Further Reading	p. 106
Overpopulation in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Introduction	p. 108
Representative Works	p. 109
Overviews	p. 110
Literary Representations of Social and Economic Theories	p. 134
Regulation of the Body	p. 205
Further Reading	p. 246
The Railroad in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Introduction	p. 247
Representative Works	p. 247
Overviews	p. 249
Symbolism	p. 280
La Bete humaine and Anna Karenina	p. 314
Realism, Sensationalism, and the Railroad	p. 344
Further Reading	p. 371
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Author Index	p. 375
Literary Criticism Series Cumulative Topic Index	p. 485
NCLC Cumulative Nationality Index	p. 499
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