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The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism

Barrish, Phillip

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\"Between the Civil War and the First World War, realism was the most prominent form of American fiction. Realist writers of the period include some of America's greatest, such as Henry James, Edith Wharton and Mark Twain, but also many lesser-known writers whose work still speaks to us today, for instance Charles Chesnutt, Zitkala-Ša and Sarah Orne Jewett. Emphasizing realism's historical context, this introduction traces the genre's relationship with powerful, often violent, social conflicts involving race, gender, class and national origin. It also examines how the realist style was created; the necessarily ambiguous relationship between realism produced on the page and reality outside the book; and the different, often contradictory, forms 'realism' took in literary works by different authors. The most accessible yet sophisticated account of American literary realism currently available, this volume will be of great value to students, teachers and readers of the American novel\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: American fiction 19th century History and criticism. / American fiction 20th century History and criticism. / Literature and society United States History 19th century. / Literature and society United States History 20th century. / Realism in literature. / Popular literature United States History and criticism. / National characteristics, American, in literature.
• ISBN: 9780521897693, 0521897696, 9780521050104, 0521050103

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS374.R32 B37 2011	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE