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EBOOK Downwardly Mobile:The Changing Fortunes of American Realism
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199828067
EAN: B9EE87CAEB
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Stron: 208
Data wydania: 2012
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In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel        secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias,        panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this        groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a new        structure of feeling: the desire of embattled and aspiring middle class for a more        solid and durable reality.The story begins with New England authors Susan Warner and        Rose Terry Cooke, whose gentry-class families became insolvent in the wake of the        1837 Panic, and moves to the western frontier, where the early careers of Rebecca        Harding Davis and William Dean Howells were shaped by a constant struggle for social        position and financial security. We see how the pull of downward social mobility        affected even the outwardly successful, bourgeois family of Henry James in New York,        while the drought-stricken wheat fields of Iowa and South Dakota produced the most        militant American realist, Hamlin Garland. For these writers, realism offered to        stabilize an uncertain world by capturing it with a new sharpness and accuracy. It        also revealed a new cast of social actors-factory workers, slaves, farm laborers,        the disabled, and the homeless, all victims of an unregulated market.Combining        economic history and literary analysis to powerful effect, Downwardly Mobile shows        how the fluctuating fortunes of the American middle class forced the emergence of a        new kind of literature, while posing difficult political choices about how the        middle class might remedy its precarious condition.

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