Downwardly Mobile by Andrew Lawson
Downwardly Mobile explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others.
Lawson's book is therefore not just another addition to the project of the New Economic Criticism, but in fact a significant rewriting of literary history* Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh, Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *
Lawson is a reliable guide through the rise of realism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. (The chapters on Henry James and Hamlin Garland are especially fascinating) ... Lawson helps us trace something - the origins of literary realism - that would otherwise remain obscure. * John Marsh, Journal of American Studies *
This monograph thoughtfully combines biography, economic history, and literary analysis to explore realism as a genre emerging from marketplace dislocations ... Highly recommended. * R. Mulligan, Christopher Newport University, CHOICE *
Lawson is a reliable guide through the rise of realism in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. (The chapters on Henry James and Hamlin Garland are especially fascinating) ... Lawson helps us trace something - the origins of literary realism - that would otherwise remain obscure. * John Marsh, Journal of American Studies *
This monograph thoughtfully combines biography, economic history, and literary analysis to explore realism as a genre emerging from marketplace dislocations ... Highly recommended. * R. Mulligan, Christopher Newport University, CHOICE *
Andrew Lawson is a lecturer in English at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199828050 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199828059 |
| Title | Downwardly Mobile |
| Author | Andrew Lawson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2012-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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