Downwardly mobile
Subtitle: the changing fortunes of American realism
By: Andrew Lawson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199828050
Subjects: Economics in literature; Realism in literature; Social classes in literature; History and criticism; Financial crises in literature; United States; Social mobility in literature; Economic conditions; American fiction
Other titles: Changing fortunes of American realism
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a hunger for the real; title: Rose Terry Cooke and the roots of realist taste; title: Rebecca Harding Davis and the failed genteel father; title: The artist of the floating world : William Dean Howells; title: The rentier aesthetics of Henry James; title: Hamlin Garland's vertical vision; title: Coda : white collar blues.