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Prose Writing 1860–1920

Series The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume 3

Edited by Sacvan Bercovitch

Publication Date 2005

Hardback ISBN-10
0521301076

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521301077

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521301077

Overview

This volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical changes then underway. Richard Brodhead describes the foundation of a permanent literary culture in America. Nancy Bentley locates the origins of nineteenth century Realism in an elite culture's responses to an emergent mass culture, embracing high literature (writers like William Dean Howells and Henry James) as well as a wide spectrum of cultural outsiders: African Americans, women, and Native Americans. Walter Benn Michaels emphasizes the critical role that turn-of-the-century fiction played in the re-evaluation of the individual at the advent of modern bureaucracy. Susan L. Mizruchi analyzes the literary responses to a new national heterogeneity that helped shape the multicultural future of modern America. Together, these narratives constitute the richest, most detailed account to date of American literature and culture between 1860 and 1920.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

The American literary field, 1860–1890

Literary forms and mass culture, 1870–1920

Promises of american life, 1880–1920

Becoming multicultural: culture, economy, and the novel, 1860–1920

Chronology 1860–1920
by
John E. Tessitore

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