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Author Bell, Michael Davitt.

Title The problem of American realism : studies in the cultural history of a literary idea / Michael Davitt Bell.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1993.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.00912 B413p    ---  Available
Description x, 245 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The sin of art : William Dean Howells -- Humor, sentiment, realism : Mark Twain -- Artist fables : Henry James's realist phase -- The revolt against style : Frank Norris -- Irony, parody, and "transcendental realism" : Stephen Crane -- Fine styles of sympathy : Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie -- Local color and realism : Sarah Orne Jewett.
Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
Realism in literature.
ISBN 0226042014

 
    
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