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Reading for Realism

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

Autor: Nancy Glazener

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Editura: Duke University Press

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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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Autor

Nancy Glazener

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1997

Pagini

384

EAN

9780822318705

ISBN

0822318709

Enbook ID

04936722

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

626

Dimensiuni

153 x 228 x 28

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"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.