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The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea - Softcover

Bell, Michael Davitt

 
9780226042022: The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226042022 ISBN 13: 9780226042022
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and naturalism as the signal development in post-Civil War American fiction. Questioning this generalization, Michael Davitt Bell investigates the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. He argues that "realism" and "naturalism" were ideological categories used to promote a version of "reality" based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions.

In chapters on William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett, Bell examines the effects that ideas about realism and naturalism had on writers. He demonstrates that, for many of them, claiming to be a realist or a naturalist was a way to provide assurance that one was a "real" man rather than an "effeminate" artist.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Davitt Bell was, at the time of his death in 1997, the J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence at Williams College. His books include The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea and The Development of American Romance, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England.

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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226042022
ISBN 13 
9780226042022
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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