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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

By Phillip Barrish

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
052178221X, 9780521782210
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1024 kB (1048066 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Pages
224\223
Time added
2016-11-10 08:23:08
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Description

Focusing on key works of late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige—that is, new ways of gaining some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasizes the differences between realist modes of cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences.

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