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.
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. 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.
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 2019-08-01. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and technique? Is it a style, with a distinctive artistic arrangement of words, characters, and description? Or is it a period, usually placed as occurring after the Civil War and concluding somewhere around the onset of World War I? This volume aims to widen the scope of study beyond mere definition, however, by expanding the boundaries of the subject through essays that reconsider and enlarge upon such questions. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism aims to take stock of the scholarly work in the area and map out paths for future directions of study. The Handbook offers 35 vibrant and original essays of new interpretations of the artistic and political challenges of representing life. It is the first book to treat the subject topically and thematically, in wide scope, with essays that 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. Contributors here tease out the workings of a particular concept through a variety of authors and their cultural contexts. A 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. As a whole, this volume forges exciting new paths in the study of realism and writers' unending labor to represent life accurately.
Class and the Making of American Literature
Class and the Making of American Literature - 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 Class and the Making of American Literature write by Andrew Lawson. This book was released on 2014-03-14. Class and the Making of American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American society operates through inequality and modes of social control, focusing primarily on issues of status group identities involving race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability. The essays in this volume focus on both the historically changing experience of class and its continuing hold on American life. The collection visits popular as well as canonical literature, recognizing that class is constructed in and mediated by the affective and the sensational. It analyzes class division, class difference, and class identity in American culture, enabling readers to grasp why class matters, as well as the economic, social, and political matter of class. Redefining the field of American literary cultural studies and asking it to rethink its preoccupation with race and gender as primary determinants of identity, contributors explore the disciplining of the laboring body and of the emotions, the political role of the novel in contesting the limits of class power and authority, and the role of the modern consumer culture in both blurring and sharpening class divisions.
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors
Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors - 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 Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors write by Gary Totten. This book was released on 2007-05-06. Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American writer Edith Wharton (1862-1937) once wrote in Harper's that she wanted to "penetrate ... the carefully guarded interior[s]" of her past memories and fashion them "into a little memorial like the boxes formed of exotic shells which sailors used to fabricate between voyages." For Totten (English, North Dakota State U.) this statement is a striking reminder of the connections between material objects and cultural meanings in Wharton's life and work. He presents 11 essays that explore these connections in a variety of ways. Topics include critical linkages of Wharton to materiality as a means to keep her outside the canonical, resistance to commodification in The House of Mirth, the creation of the disposable object and Wharton's characters' fears of their disposability, Wharton's ideas about the use of museum space in The Age of Innocence, and the effect of technology on domestic space in The Fruit of the Tree.
