American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract write by Brook Thomas. This book was released on 2023-04-28. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in `1997.
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 write by Phillip Barrish. This book was released on 2001-02-19. American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism write by Keith Newlin. This book was released on 2019. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism offers 35 original essays of fresh interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life accurately. Organized by topic and theme, essays draw upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies to offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of major and minor figures and the contexts that shaped their work. One set of essays explores realism's genesis and its connection to previous and subsequent movements. Others examine the inclusiveness of representation, the circulation of texts, and the aesthetic representation of science, time, space, and the subjects of medicine, the New Woman, and the middle class. Still others trace the connection to other arts--poetry, drama, illustration, photography, painting, and film--and to pedagogic issues in the teaching of realism"--
The Fugitive's Properties
The Fugitive's Properties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fugitive's Properties write by Stephen M. Best. This book was released on 2010-05-15. The Fugitive's Properties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.
West of Emerson
West of Emerson - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook West of Emerson write by Kris Fresonke. This book was released on 2003-01-06. West of Emerson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Aligning Emerson and Thoreau with exploration narratives by Lewis and Clark, Pike, and others, West of Emerson realigns the standard map of regional American literature. Focusing on New England, it reorients our understanding of the literature of the west. Fresonke writes with grace and wit and sees the rhetoric of both manifest destiny and New England Transcendentalism with new eyes."—Brook Thomas, author of American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract
