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Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century --- Social problems in literature --- Williams, Tennessee, - 1911-1983 - Political and social views --- Literature and society --- Williams, Tennessee, - 1911-1983

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Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Poetry was then part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political, and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. Reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar provides a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.

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American literature --- Leisure --- Literature and society --- Recreation in literature. --- Leisure in literature. --- Work in literature. --- Play in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- History. --- American literature - 19th century - History and criticism. --- Leisure - United States - History - 19th century. --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - United States - History. --- Leisure - United States - History - 20th century.

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Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Literature and society --- Literatuur en maatschappij --- Littérature et société --- Popular culture --- American fiction --- History --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- 19th century --- United States --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Criticism and interpretation --- Howells, William Dean --- Twain, Mark --- James, Henry --- Literature and society - United States - History --- Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century --- American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

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Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the book defines and describes Hawthornian Romance in a new way: not, in customary fashion, as the definitive instance of a peculiarly American genre, but as a narrative practice designed to expose and restage the covert drama that affiliates us to our community. Hawthorne's fiction thus recovers for its readers, through the interpretive independence it teaches, a freer, more lucid, more critical relation to the community we inhabit, and the cultural engagement romance enacts in turn rescues Hawthorne from the confining marginality that the writer's career had threatened to confer. From the book's distinctive account of his narrative tactics, especially his deployment of the voices and attitudes--authoritarian or democratic, entrapping or freeing--that give shape to his ideological terrain, Hawthorne emerges as a daring reinventor of the novel's cultural role.Originally published in 1992.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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