American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual - Prestige, 1880 199

Klappentext Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige in the key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste; 2. The 'facts of physical suffering', the literary intellectual and The Wings of the Dove; 3. The 'genuine article': credit and ethnicity in The Rise of David Levinsky; 4. What Nona knows; 5. From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Phillip Barrish, Phillip (University of Texas Barrish
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521782210
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78221-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies