The Cambridge introduction to American literary realism [electronic resource] / Phillip J. Barrish.

9781139160957 (electronic bk.)
1139160958 (electronic bk.)
9780521897693
0521897696
9780521050104
0521050103
9781139158909 (electronic bk.)
1139158902 (electronic bk.)

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (xii, 225 p.) : ill.

9786613340986

PS374.R32 B37 2011eb

810.9/1209034

"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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-215) and index.

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