The Portable American Realism Reader

Name: The Portable American Realism Reader
Brand: Penguin Publishing Group
SKU: 9780140268300-V
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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
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 642
Age Recommendation:: 18 and up
Publisher:: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date:: 1997-12-01
Release Date:: 1998-04-30
ISBN / EAN:: 9780140268300
Weight:: 668 g
Dimensions:: 13/20/3 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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