American literary realism, critical theory, and intellectual prestige, 1880-1995 / Phillip Barrish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrish, Phillip, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 126.

Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 126

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Realism in literature.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, & Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.

Contents:

William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste

The "facts of physical suffering," the literary intellectual, and The wings of the dove

The "genuine article": credit and ethnicity in The rise of David Levinsky

What Nona knows

From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12063-2

1-280-15917-0

0-511-11873-2

0-511-01881-9

0-511-15615-4

0-511-30407-2

0-511-48545-X

0-511-04621-9

OCLC:

70737970