{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-american-literature-volume-3-prose-writing-1860-1920-hardback-9780521301077","title":"The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose writing, 1860–1920 (Hardback) 9780521301077","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose writing, 1860–1920\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA complete narrative of prose literature in the United States in this pivotal period of history.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSacvan Bercovitch (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521301077, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e826 pages, 21 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 1.459 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume covers a pivotal era in the formation of American identity. Four leading scholars connect the literature with the massive historical changes then underway. Richard Brodhead describes the foundation of a permanent literary culture in America. Nancy Bentley locates the origins of nineteenth century Realism in an elite culture's responses to an emergent mass culture, embracing high literature (writers like William Dean Howells and Henry James) as well as a wide spectrum of cultural outsiders: African Americans, women, and Native Americans. Walter Benn Michaels emphasizes the critical role that turn-of-the-century fiction played in the re-evaluation of the individual at the advent of modern bureaucracy. Susan L. Mizruchi analyzes the literary responses to a new national heterogeneity that helped shape the multicultural future of modern America. Together, these narratives constitute the richest, most detailed account to date of American literature and culture between 1860 and 1920.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Sacvan Bercovitch\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The American Literary Field, 1860–1890 Richard H. Brodhead: 1. Cultures of letters\u003cbr\u003e 2. After the American Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 3. Domestic literary culture\u003cbr\u003e 4. Books for the millions\u003cbr\u003e 5. Onstage\u003cbr\u003e 6. Literary high culture\u003cbr\u003e 7. Out of the center\u003cbr\u003e 8. A case study: literary regionalism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Regional writing and the role of the author\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Literary Forms and Mass Culture, 1870–1920 Nancy Bentley: 1. Museum realism\u003cbr\u003e 2. Howells, James, and the aesthetic republic\u003cbr\u003e 3. Women and realist authorship\u003cbr\u003e 4. Chesnutt and imperial spectacle\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wharton, travel, and modernity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Adams, James, DuBois, and social thought\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Promises of American Life, 1880–1920 Walter Benn Michaels: 1. An American tragedy, or the promise of American life\u003cbr\u003e 2. The production of visibility\u003cbr\u003e 3. The contracted heart\u003cbr\u003e 4. Success\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Becoming Multicultural: Culture, Economy, and the Novel, 1860–1920 Susan L. Mizruchi: 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Remembering civil war\u003cbr\u003e 3. Social death and the reconstruction of slavery\u003cbr\u003e 4. Cosmopolitan variations\u003cbr\u003e 5. Native American sacrifice in an age of progress\u003cbr\u003e 6. Marketing culture\u003cbr\u003e 7. Varieties of work\u003cbr\u003e 8. Corporate America\u003cbr\u003e 9. Realist utopias\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007071801624,"sku":"9780521301077","price":156.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521301077i_2ae84d72-d825-4b96-880b-d64731b8ffa8.jpg?v=1691374955","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-history-of-american-literature-volume-3-prose-writing-1860-1920-hardback-9780521301077","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}