Phillip Barrish

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige in the key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521103800
• ISBN-10: 0521103800
• Artikelnr.: 25686366

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste
2. The 'facts of physical suffering', the literary intellectual and The Wings of the Dove
3. The 'genuine article': credit and ethnicity in The Rise of David Levinsky
4. What Nona knows
5. From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene
Notes
Bibliography
Index.