The Social Construction of American Realism
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780226424309
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary theory; Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; 19th Century American Novel And Short Story; Philosophy; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; General; Philosophy / General
First sentence: American realism emerges in literary history in bellicose terms-as a war, a struggle, a campaign-and William Dean Howells appears as the leader of the charge.