Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise.
Artistic Liberties is a landmark study of the illustrations that originally accompanied now-classic works of American literary realism and the ways editors, authors, and illustrators vied for authority over the publications.
"Realism": toward a definition -- Three sensibilities: romancer, realist, naturalist -- The Batrachomyomachia & American fiction -- Native sources -- Huckleberry Finn by common day -- "The wizard hand": Hawthorne, 1864-1900 -- The Howells nobody knows -- Howells & Crane: violence, decorum, & reality -- The Virginian -- Teacher's choice.
The body and the corporation: Norris, Chambers -- Double consciousness: Johnson, Chesnutt, Du Bois, Washington -- Pioneering women: Austin, Eaton, Stein, Eliot, Williams, Cather -- Performing maleness: Hemingway -- Colored me: Toomer, Hurston, and many more
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Includes the complete contents of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, additional volumes published from 1993-97 and quarterly releases. Each entry contains the word's etymology, definition, part of speech, date of origination, pronunciation, cross-references, and quotations.
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