Kniha Reading for Realism Nancy Glazener

Reading for Realism

The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Vydavateľ: Duke University Press
Dostupnosť: 50 % šanca
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"Reading for Realism" presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis...

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Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
1997
Stránok
384
EAN
9780822318804
ISBN
0822318806
Enbook ID
04936728
Hmotnosť
862
Rozmery
229 x 152

Kompletný popis

"Reading for Realism" presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - a form she contends was only made possible by changes in the expectations of readers about pleasure and literary value. By tracing readers' collaboration in the production of literary forms, "Reading for Realism" turns nineteenth-century controversies about the realist, romance, and sentimental novels into episodes in the history of readership. It also shows how works of fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others participated in the debates about literary classification and reading that, in turn, created and shaped their audiences. Combining reception theory with a materialist analysis of the social formations in which realist reading practices circulated, Glazener's study reveals the elitist underpinnings of literary realism. At the book's centre is the Atlantic group of magazines, whose influence was part of the cultural machinery of the Northeastern urban bourgeoisie and crucial to the development of literary realism in America. Glazener shows how the promotion of realism by this group of publications also meant a consolidation of privilege - primarily in terms of class, gender, race, and region - for the audience it served. Thus American realism, so often portrayed as a quintessentially populist form, actually served to enforce existing structures of class and power. Grounded in archival investigation and demonstrating a thorough critical and theoretical sophistication, "Reading for Realism" will engage readers with interests in American literature, particularly nineteenth-century fiction, literary theory, and gender and class studies.

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