Reading for Realism The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910
Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910

Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-a fo...

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1. Verfasser: Glazener, Nancy (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [1997]
Schriftenreihe:New Americanists
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
American periodicals > History > 19th century
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
Realism in the press
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Zusammenfassung:Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-a form she contends was only made possible by changes in the expectations of readers about pleasure and literary value. By tracing readers' collaboration in the production of literary forms, Reading for Realism turns nineteenth-century controversies about the realist, romance, and sentimental novels into episodes in the history of readership. It also shows how works of fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others participated in the debates about literary classification and reading that, in turn, created and shaped their audiences.Combining reception theory with a materialist analysis of the social formations in which realist reading practices circulated, Glazener's study reveals the elitist underpinnings of literary realism. At the book's center is the Atlantic group of magazines, whose influence was part of the cultural machinery of the Northeastern urban bourgeoisie and crucial to the development of literary realism in America. Glazener shows how the promotion of realism by this group of publications also meant a consolidation of privilege-primarily in terms of class, gender, race, and region-for the audience it served. Thus American realism, so often portrayed as a quintessentially populist form, actually served to enforce existing structures of class and power
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Jan 2021)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (384 pages)
ISBN:9780822399933
DOI:10.1515/9780822399933

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