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Downwardly mobile : the changing fortunes of American realism / Andrew Lawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawson, Andrew, 1959 July 4-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Realism in literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Economics in literature.
- Financial crises in literature.
- Social mobility in literature.
- Social classes in literature.
- United States--Economic conditions--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Changing fortunes of American realism
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a hunger for the real
- Rose Terry Cooke and the roots of realist taste
- Rebecca Harding Davis and the failed genteel father
- The artist of the floating world : William Dean Howells
- The rentier aesthetics of Henry James
- Hamlin Garland's vertical vision
- Coda : white collar blues.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-937502-X
- 0-19-982806-7
- 1-280-49987-7
- 9786613595102
- OCLC:
- 794003437
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