Guilty Pleasures : Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century /

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"Examining reactions to bestselling fiction in America from 1850-1920, the period in which popular novels became national phenomena, Guilty Pleasures argues that ambivalence about public taste sparked a wide-ranging exploration of individualism and national identity"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McIntosh, Hugh, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular literature.
Literature and society.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Roman americain > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Paralitterature > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the not-so-great American novel
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere
  • Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief
  • British authorship, American advertising
  • Questionable Americans abroad
  • Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin
  • Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.

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