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The Ferment of Realism : American Literature 1884-1919 Warner Berthoff PB
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- The Ferment of Realism : American Literature 1884-1919 Warner Ber
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
052128435X
ISBN-13
9780521284356
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038296819
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
356 Pages
Publication Name
Ferment of Realism : American Literature 1884-1919
Language
English
Subject
American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1981
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
80-042335
Dewey Edition
19
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/004
Table Of Content
Preface to the first edition; Preface to the 1981 reissue; 1. American realism: a grammar of motives; 2. Novels and novelists: the era of Howells and James; 3. Literature of argument; 4. Lives of the Americans: the class of the '70s; 5. Renaissance: 1912 and after; Select bibliography; Index of names and titles; Index of selected topics.
Synopsis
Traces the central developments in American literature during one of its most important periods: the ascendancy of the novel as the principal genre of the realists. Originally published in hardcover only by The Free Press in 1965., This book traces the central developments in American literature between and 1919. It opens with an account of the consolidation of realism as the dominant standard of critical value and brings the reader forward to the moment, at the end of World War I, when American writers began to take a recognized place among the masters of literary modernism. The ascendancy of the novel as the principal genre of the realists is presented against a broader cultural and historical background. Professor Berthoff reviews and evaluates American fiction from the time when Howells, Twain, and Henry James were still under attack by old-school idealizers, to the emergence of a new critical and testamentary realism with Crane, Dreiser, and Gertrude Stein. He shows how the writers under discussion reacted to the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, to foreign literary currents, innovations in journalism, contemporary events, and to changing mores. Using specific examples and direct quotations, Professor Berthoff appraises the strengths and limitations of each. All his discussions, even of secondary writers, are rounded out with a wide range of critical opinion. This approach gives depth and objectivity to the examination of a turbulent and vigorously creative age in American letters. During this period the writings of Henry Adams, Henry George, William James, Thorstein Veblen, and others, though primarily concerned with disciplined reflective inquiry, were part of the essential imaginative effort of realism. The master works of this highly literate group of speculative thinkers had a profound effect on the literature of the era and on the era directly following. Important figures discussed in the final chapters of this history include Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Vachel Lindsay and Jack London. Professor Berthoff notes that there is no manifesto or turning point in literature exactly comparable to the turning point in American art created by the Armory Show of 1913. But the emergence in a single generation of Robinson, Frost, Stevens, Pound, Anderson, Stein, O'Neill, and Eliot was to have immense influence, not only in America but throughout the Western world. The thirty-five years that this book spans are among the most important and interesting in the history of American letters. The main currents traced are still vital, and the principal writers of this period are as important now as they were then.
LC Classification Number
PS214 .B4 1981
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