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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Unit Type
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- ISBN
- 9780691188942
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691188947
ISBN-13
9780691188942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050081526
Product Key Features
Book Title
Founded in Fiction : the Uses of Fiction in the Early United States
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), American / General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-045233
Reviews
" Founded in Fiction heightens our awareness of the exact processes of fiction's meaning-making and helpfully extends literary criticism's unsettling of literariness as a value taken for granted." ---Xine Yao, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, "Literary historians . . . print culture scholars and genre studies folks . . . will all be delighted by the contribution Koenigs is making to their fields. The book's merits are many, and it is sure to be well received." ---Elizabeth Dill, Eighteenth-Century Studies, " Founded in Fiction is as much an intellectual history as a literary one: Koenigs writes with precision and authority about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American print culture, religious debates, transatlantic literary relations, political philosophy, and periodical culture, elegantly interweaving this rich array of cultural materials with the complex rhetorical debates taking place in fiction. . . . Koenigs synthesizes the many explanations and defenses of fiction into a convincing, elegant argument about knowledge making in the early United States." ---Si'n Silyn Roberts, Nineteenth-Century Literature, "This study is an important reconsideration of early American fiction that consistently demonstrates the sophisticated self-consciousness with which various American writers approached the troubling yet dynamic concept of fictionality. . . . Deeply researched and thoughtfully argued." ---Philip Gould, American Literary History, [A] rich and fascinating history of fictionality, illuminating the complexity of early experimentation while tracing its contributions to the aesthetic and cultural dominance of what came to be known as the American novel. . . . Essential., "Offers one of the most fascinating reinterpretations of the early US novel." ---Joseph Rezek, Early American Literature, "Thomas Koenigs navigates smoothly through a wealth of texts. . . adding to our understanding of American literary history, plunging us into the mindset of the time, all the while giving us an insight into the periodical press and literary criticism of the antebellum period and taking us through the political, social, aesthetic, and literary debates of a fascinating and far too long underestimated period." ---Pauline Pilote, Transatlantica
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.209
Synopsis
An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic-one 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 features-its 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 1789-1861, 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., An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic--one that challenges the "rise of the novel" narrative What 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 features--its 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 1789-1861, 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., An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic-one 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
LC Classification Number
PS375.K64 2021
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