Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American WritersDiscusses how Hawthorne, Melville, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James resisted the demands of the 19th century popular tastes and maintained their artistic integrity. |
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... cultural setting without danger of losing sight of what makes them masterpieces . In particular , the concern with popular culture that has burgeoned during the past decade has directed attention in much greater detail both to ...
... cultural setting without danger of losing sight of what makes them masterpieces . In particular , the concern with popular culture that has burgeoned during the past decade has directed attention in much greater detail both to ...
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... popular culture ; the present book grows out of my gradual realization that each of the major novelists examined here came into collision with it . There is a sense in which I have not transcended Matthiessen's distinction after all ...
... popular culture ; the present book grows out of my gradual realization that each of the major novelists examined here came into collision with it . There is a sense in which I have not transcended Matthiessen's distinction after all ...
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Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers Henry Nash Smith. 9. Ann Douglas , in The Feminization of American Culture ( New York , 1977 ) , has recently investigated at considerable length the role of women in this transformation ...
Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers Henry Nash Smith. 9. Ann Douglas , in The Feminization of American Culture ( New York , 1977 ) , has recently investigated at considerable length the role of women in this transformation ...
Contents
The Issues | 3 |
The Madness of Ahab | 35 |
The Theology of Realism | 75 |
Copyright | |
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Adventures Ahab Ahab's American analysis appeared attitudes audience Bartley Bartley's become Beecher believe called century Chapter characters Civil common completely concern continued conventional course critics culture death decades described developed distinction doctrine earlier effect England Essays example experience expressed fact feel fiction force genteel guilt hand Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry James Howells Howells's Huck human idea ideal imagination implied insanity intellectual interest Ishmael James's kind later least Letters literary literature live look madness Marcia Mark Twain Mass means Melville mind moral narrative narrator nature North Norwood notion novel novelist observed passage perhaps popular present published question quoted reader reading realism reality recognize relation represented revealed Review says seems sense social society story suggested things thought tradition truth universe voice Wide writer Yankee York young