Problem of American Realism Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea

Name: Problem of American Realism Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea
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ISBN: 9780226042022

ISBN-10: 0226042022

ISBN-13: 9780226042022

Edition: 1995

Authors: Michael Davitt Bell

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Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and naturalism as the signal development in post-Civil War American fiction. Questioning this generalization, Michael Davitt Bell investigates the role that these terms played in the social and literary discourse of the 1880s and 1890s. He argues that "realism" and "naturalism" were ideological categories used to promote a version of "reality" based on radically anti-"literary" and heavily gendered assumptions. In chapters on William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Sarah Orne Jewett, Bell examines the…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: American Realism



The First Generation




The Sin of Art: William Dean Howells The Problem of Howellsian Realism The Road to Realism A Portrait of the Artist as a "Real" Man The Problem of American Realism



Humor, Sentiment, Realism: Mark Twain Mark Twain as Critic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court



Artist Fables: Henry James's Realist Phase A Different Road/A Different Realism Realism and Reform Naturalism, Impressionism, Revolution



The Problem of Naturalism




The Revolt against Style: Frank Norris The Road to Naturalism Naturalism and Style



Irony, Parody, and "Transcendental Realism": Stephen Crane The Language of the Street Words of War



Fine Styles of Sympathy; Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie Dreiser and American Naturalism Condescension and Identification



A "Woman's Place" in American Realism




Local Color and Realism: Sarah Orne Jewett Jewett's Place in American Realism Maine Person and Boston Professional Realism, Feminism, and the World of Dunnet Landing


Notes


Index