Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism

Informationen zum Autor Phillip J. Barrish is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin. Klappentext The most wide-ranging and sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available for students. Zusammenfassung This introduction offers the most wide-ranging and sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available for students. Barrish emphasizes both historical context and aesthetic form while also introducing readers to ongoing critical debates on authors including Henry James! William Dean Howells! Sarah Orne Jewett! Edith Wharton and Mark Twain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 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, the changing economy, and 'masculinity'; 8. 'Certain facts of life': realism and feminism; 9. 'The unjust spirit of caste': race and realism; 10. New Americans write realism; Conclusion: realisms after realism; Further reading; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Phillip J. Barrish, Phillip J. (University of Texas Barrish, Barrish Phillip J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2011
• EAN: 9780521050104
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05010-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers