Downwardly mobile : the changing fortunes of American realism / [electronic resource]
by Lawson, Andrew.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199933334 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Realism in literature | American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Economics in literature | Financial crises in literature | Social mobility in literature | Social classes in literature | United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th centuryOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This title explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others.
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This title explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others.
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