The Cambridge history of American literature. Vol. 3, Prose writing, 1860-1920 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch.
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 nineteent...
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Table of Contents:
- THE AMERICAN LITERARY FIELD, 1860-1890 / Richard H. Brodhead
- The American literary field, 1860-1890
- LITERARY FORMS AND MASS CULTURE, 1870-1920 / Nancy Bentley
- Museum Realism
- Howells, James, and the republic of letters
- Women and Realist authorship
- Chesnutt and imperial spectacle
- Wharton, travel, and modernity
- Adams, James, Du Bois, and social thought
- PROMISES OF AMERICAN LIFE, 1880-1920 / Walter Benn Michaels
- An American tragedy, or the promise of American life
- The production of visibility
- The contracted heart
- Success
- BECOMING MULTICULTURAL: CULTURE, ECONOMY, AND THE NOVEL, 1860-1920 / Susan L. Mizruchi
- Introduction
- Remembering civil war
- Social death and the reconstruction of slavery
- Cosmopolitan variations
- Native-American sacrifice in an age of progress
- Marketing culture
- Varieties of work
- Corporate America
- Realist utopias
- Chronology 1860-1920 / John E. Tessitore.