Andrew Lawson

Downwardly Mobile

The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining economic history and literary analysis to powerful effect, Downwardly Mobile shows how the fluctuating fortunes of the American middle class forced the emergence of a new kind of literature, while posing difficult political choices about how the middle class might remedy its precarious condition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780199375028
• ISBN-10: 019937502X
• Artikelnr.: 40443139

Autorenporträt

Andrew Lawson is Principal Lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Hunger for the Real
1. Rose Terry Cooke and the Roots of Realist Taste
2. Rebecca Harding Davis and the Failed Genteel Father
3. The Artist of the Floating World: William Dean Howells
4. The Rentier Aesthetics of Henry James
5. Hamlin Garland's Vertical Vision
Coda: White Collar Blues
Index