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Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910

Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910

Glazener, Nancy

Paperback

Series: New Americanists

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0822318709
ISBN13: 9780822318705
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 10 1997
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.12 Width: 6.01 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries-a form she contends was only made possible by changes in the expectations of readers about pleasure and literary value. By tracing readers' collaboration in the production of literary forms, Reading for Realism turns nineteenth-century controversies about the realist, romance, and sentimental novels into episodes in the history of readership. It also shows how works of fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others participated in the debates about literary classification and reading that, in turn, created and shaped their audiences.

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