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American literary realism, critical theory, and intellectual prestige, 1880-1995
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ISBN: 1107120632 1280159170 0511118732 0511018819 0511156154 0511304072 051148545X 0511046219 9780511018817 052178221X 9780521782210 0511030967 9780511030963 9780511046216 9780511118739 9780511485459 9781107120631 9781280159176 9780511156151 9780511304071 9780521103800 0521103800 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.


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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism
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ISBN: 9780521897693 0521897696 9780521050104 0521050103 9781139021678 9781139160957 1139160958 9781139158909 1139158902 1139021672 1283340984 9781283340984 9781139157148 1139157140 1107226317 113915253X 9786613340986 113915995X 1139155393 9781107226319 6613340987 9781139155397 Year: 2011 Volume: *4 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful, often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender, class and national origin. It also examines how the realist style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship between realism produced on the page and reality outside the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms 'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The most accessible yet sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available, this volume will be of great value to students, teachers and readers of the American novel"--

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