Civil Wars
American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940
Observers from Alexis de Tocqueville to Lionel Trilling have found the United States wanting in what it takes to produce a novelist of manners--namely, a rich enough past and sufficiently stratified classes. In a work that recovers the broader meaning of manners for past generations, Susan Goodman demonstrates that American writers have consistently tied the subject of national identity to the norms and behaviors of everyday life--that, in fact, the novel of manners is a dominant form of American fiction. Goodman concentrates on a cluster of writers--William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fau…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8018-6824-5
- EAN: 9780801868245
- Produktnummer: 23422817
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H16.3 cm x B23.6 cm x D2.3 cm 430 g
- Abbildungen: No
- Gewicht: 430
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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