Recalling Fiction’s Cultural Context - Early Gothic and Utopian Romance Cooper, Poe, Crane, Cather, Lawrence, Fitzgerald and West

Table of contents:
Introduction
1. Three Approaches to 18th Century Genres (Gothic Fragments; Utopian Satires; Captivity Narratives)
2. Three Ways to Historicize The Last of the Mohicans
3. Three Entries to the House of Poe
4. Three Approaches to the Short Story, 1890-1925 (Stephen Crane’s “The Monster”; Willa Cather’s Paul as Teenage Faust; Lawrence’s Strong Women – The Elder Sisters of “The Horse-dealer’s Daughter”)
5. Tender is the Night: The Past Imperfect of Dick and Nicole
6. Flight and Flightlessness in West’s Day of the Locust

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