Downwardly Mobile
The Changing Fortunes of American Realism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 May 2012
- ISBN 9780199828050
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 163x239x22 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 illustrations 0
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Short description:
Downwardly Mobile 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.
MoreLong description:
Downwardly Mobile 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 by Rose Terry Cooke, Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Hamlin Garland. The book argues that, in each of these writers, the opacity and abstraction of social relationships in an expanding market economy combined with a sense of pervasive insecurity to produce a "hunger for the real" - a commitment to a mimetic literature capable of stabilizing the social world by capturing it with a new sharpness and accuracy. The book relocates the origins of literary realism in the antebellum period and a structure of feeling based in the residual household economy which prized the virtues of the local, the particular, and the concrete, against the alienating abstractions of the emerging market. In a parallel line of argument, the book explores the ways in which sympathetic identification with lower-class figures served to locate American realist authors in a confused and shifting social space.
Lawson's book is therefore not just another addition to the project of the New Economic Criticism, but in fact a significant rewriting of literary history.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Hunger for the Real
1. Rose Terry Cooke and the Roots of Realist Taste
2. Rebecca Harding Davis and the Failed Genteel Father
3. The Artist of the Floating World: William Dean Howells
4. The Rentier Aesthetics of Henry James
5. Hamlin Garland's Vertical Vision
Coda: White Collar Blues
Index
