American literary realism, critical theory, and intellectual prestige, 1880-1995:
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Main Author: Barrish, Phillip (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 126
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-208) and index
William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste -- The "facts of physical suffering, " the literary intellectual, and The wings of the dove -- The "genuine article": credit and ethnicity in The rise of David Levinsky -- What Nona knows -- From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene
Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige and some degree of cultural recognition. This book is the first extended treatment of a genre, realism, central to our understanding of American literature
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 213 pages)
ISBN:0511018819
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