num_pages: 224
description: 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.
language: English
title: American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995
titlecomplete: American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 126)
ratings_count: 2
series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
publisher: Cambridge University Press