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The Problem Of American Realism
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Author : Michael Davitt Bell
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-04-15
The Problem Of American Realism written by Michael Davitt Bell and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-15 with Education categories.
Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of "realism" and "naturalism" as the great development in American post-Civil War fiction. Yet there are many problems with this generalization. It is virtually impossible, for example, to extract from the novels and manifestoes of American writers of this period any consistent definitions of realism or naturalism as modes of literary representation. Rather than seek common traits in widely divergent "realist" and "naturalist" literary works, Michael Davitt Bell focuses here on the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. Bell argues that in America, "realism" and "naturalism" never achieved the sort of theoretical rigor that they did in European literary debate. Instead, the function of these ideas in America was less aesthetic than ideological, promoting as "reality" a version of social normalcy based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions. What effects, Bell asks, did ideas about realism and naturalism have on writers who embraced and resisted them? To answer this question, he devotes separate chapters to the work of Howells and Frank Norris (the principal American advocates of realism and naturalism in the 1880s and 1890s), Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Bell reveals that a chief function of claiming to be a realist or a naturalist was to provide assurance that one was a "real" man rather than an "effeminate" artist. Since the 1880s, Bell asserts, all serious American fiction writers have had to contend with this problematic conception of literaryrealism. The true story of the transformation of American fiction after the Civil War is the history of this contention - a history of individual accommodations, evasions, holding actions, and occasional triumphs.
The Social Construction Of American Realism
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Author : Amy Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1992-12-15
The Social Construction Of American Realism written by Amy Kaplan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-12-15 with Philosophy categories.
Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the development of mass culture. Brilliant analyses of works by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser illuminate the narrative process by which realism constructs a social world of conflict and change. "[Kaplan] offers some enthralling readings of major novels by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser. It is a book which should be read by anyone interested in the American novel."—Tony Tanner, Modern Language Review "Kaplan has made an important contribution to our understanding of American realism. This is a book that deserves wide attention."—June Howard, American Literature
American Realism
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Author : Edward Lucie-Smith
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 1994
American Realism written by Edward Lucie-Smith and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility and liveliness of the American realist tradition.
American Realism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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American Realism And American Drama 1880 1940
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Author : Brenda Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-08-27
American Realism And American Drama 1880 1940 written by Brenda Murphy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-08-27 with Drama categories.
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s through World War I and the uniquely American innovations in realistic drama between world wars.
American Realism
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Author : Eric J. Sundquist
language : en
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 1982
American Realism written by Eric J. Sundquist and has been published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Portable American Realism Reader
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Author : Various
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1997-12-01
The Portable American Realism Reader written by Various and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-01 with Fiction categories.
During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to "paint life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation," Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.
American Realism
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Author : Christopher Smith
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 2000
American Realism written by Christopher Smith and has been published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with American literature categories.
A collection of essays on realism in American literature.
Downwardly Mobile
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Author : Andrew Lawson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-22
Downwardly Mobile written by Andrew Lawson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a new structure of feeling: the desire of embattled and aspiring middle class for a more solid and durable reality. The story begins with New England authors Susan Warner and Rose Terry Cooke, whose gentry-class families became insolvent in the wake of the 1837 Panic, and moves to the western frontier, where the early careers of Rebecca Harding Davis and William Dean Howells were shaped by a constant struggle for social position and financial security. We see how the pull of downward social mobility affected even the outwardly successful, bourgeois family of Henry James in New York, while the drought-stricken wheat fields of Iowa and South Dakota produced the most militant American realist, Hamlin Garland. For these writers, realism offered to stabilize an uncertain world by capturing it with a new sharpness and accuracy. It also revealed a new cast of social actors-factory workers, slaves, farm laborers, the disabled, and the homeless, all victims of an unregulated market. Combining economic history and literary analysis to powerful effect, Downwardly Mobile shows how the fluctuating fortunes of the American middle class forced the emergence of a new kind of literature, while posing difficult political choices about how the middle class might remedy its precarious condition.
The Illusion Of Life
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Author : Harold H. Kolb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Illusion Of Life written by Harold H. Kolb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with American literature categories.