American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
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 some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasizes the differences between realist modes of cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences.
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
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 some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasizes the differences between realist modes of cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences.
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

by Phillip Barrish
American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995

by Phillip Barrish

Overview

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 some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasizes the differences between realist modes of cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521103800
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/11/2008
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #126
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile: 1730L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste; 2. The 'facts of physical suffering', the literary intellectual and The Wings of the Dove; 3. The 'genuine article': credit and ethnicity in The Rise of David Levinsky; 4. What Nona knows; 5. From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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