| Description |
viii, 221 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-213) and index. |
| Contents |
The rise of the art-novel and the question of class : certain novels ; mental labor ; methodological philistinism : from difference to distinction -- The mind's eye and mental labor : forms of distinction in the fiction of Henry James : the novel as a masterpiece ; epistemologies of social class ; the romance of romance : virtue unrewarded ; divisive perpectivism -- Social geometries : taking place in the Jamesian modernist text : the hidden dimensions of class ; fictions of the mass ; extraordinary readers -- Downward mobilities : the prison of the womb and the architecture of career in Stephen Crane : house of fiction, house of shame ; urban ambitions : Crane, Wharton, O. Henry ; transient occupations : from Howells to Crane to Dos Passos -- Highbrows and dumb blondes : literary intellectuals and the romance of intelligence : playing with dumb Anita Loos ; bad students and smart sets ; morons and moralizers : the eugenic romance ; smart white blacks : Mencken, Stein and race pastoral intellection -- Faulkner's ambit : modernism, regionalism, and the location of cultural capital : racinations : a deeper South ; relations : modernism and mules -- Making "literature" of it : Dashiell Hammett and the mysteries of high culture : God, Mammon, and Willard Wright ; murdering representation -- Mobius fictions. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Influence.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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| ISBN |
0691088985 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0691088993 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA1V2237 |
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