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The Portable American Realism Reader

By Tom Quirk

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The Portable American Realism Reader

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During the pivotal period of America's international emergence, between the Civil War and WWI, the aligned literary movements of Realism and Naturalism not only shaped the national literature of the age, but also left an indelible and far-reaching influence on twentieth-century American and world literature. Seeking to strip narrative from pious sentimentalities, and, according to William Dean Howells, to "paint life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation," Realism is best represented by this volume's masterly pieces by Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, and Willa Cather among others. The joining of Realist methods with the theories of Marx, Darwin, and Spencer to reveal the larger forces (biological, evolutionary, historical) which move humankind, are exemplified here in the fiction of such writers as Jack London, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
642
Release Date:
1998-04-30
Publication Date:
1997-12-01
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140268308
ISBN13:
9780140268300
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
668 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
34 cm

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