The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919

by Warner Berthoff

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This book traces the central developments in American literature between and 1919. It opens with an account of the consolidation of realism as the dominant standard of critical value and brings the reader forward to the moment, at the end of World War I, when American writers began to take a recognized place among the masters of literary modernism. The ascendancy of the novel as the principal genre of the realists is presented against a broader cultural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:052128435X

ISBN13:9780521284356

Release Date:July 1981

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:356 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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