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050 00 $aPS374.R32$bB37 2011
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100 1 $aBarrish, Phillip.
245 14 $aThe Cambridge introduction to American literary realism /$cPhillip J. Barrish.
260 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axii, 225 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aCambridge introductions to literature
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 204-215) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: American literary realism --1. Literary precursors, literary contexts -- 2. The 'look of agony' and everyday middle-class life: three transitional works -- 3. Creating the 'odor' of the real: techniques of realism -- 4. Conflicting manners: high realism and social competition -- 5. 'Democracy in literature'? Literary regionalism -- 6. 'The blab of the pave': realism and the city -- 7. Crisis of agency: literary naturalism, economic change, 'masculinity' -- 8. 'Certain facts of life': realism and feminism -- 9. 'The unjust spirit of caste': realism and race -- 10. New Americans write realism -- Conclusion: realisms after realism.
520 $a"Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful, often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender, class and national origin. It also examines how the realist style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship between realism produced on the page and reality outside the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms 'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The most accessible yet sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available, this volume will be of great value to students, teachers and readers of the American novel"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aRealism in literature.
650 0 $aPopular literature$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.
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