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

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige and some degree of cultural recognition. This book is the first extended treatment of a genre, realism, central to our understandi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Barrish, Phillip
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 126.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.