Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism
(Part of the Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book Series)
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Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer. Yet as Barbara Hochman shows in this illuminating study, the emergence of literary realism at the turn of the century called such assumptions into question. The realist aesthetic of narrative "objectivity" challenged the notion that a literary text reflects...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558497641
ISBN13:9781558497641
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.67 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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