Donald Pizer presents the major critical discussions of American realism and naturalism from the beginnings of the movement in the 1870s to the present. He includes the most often cited discussions ranging from William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Frank Norris in the late nineteenth century to those by V. L. Parrington, Malcolm Cowley, and Lionel Trilling in the early twentieth century. To provide the full context for the effort to interpret the nature and significance of realism and naturalism during the periods when the ...
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Donald Pizer presents the major critical discussions of American realism and naturalism from the beginnings of the movement in the 1870s to the present. He includes the most often cited discussions ranging from William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Frank Norris in the late nineteenth century to those by V. L. Parrington, Malcolm Cowley, and Lionel Trilling in the early twentieth century. To provide the full context for the effort to interpret the nature and significance of realism and naturalism during the periods when the movements were live issues on the critical scene, however, he also includes many uncollected essays. His selections since World War II reflect the major recent tendencies in academic criticism of the movements. Through introductions to each of the three sections, Pizer provides background, delineating the underlying issues motivating attempts to attack, defend, or describe American realism and naturalism. In particular, Pizer attempts to reveal the close ties between criticism of the two movements and significant cultural concerns of the period in which the criticism appeared. Before each selection, Pizer provides a brief biographical note and establishes the cultural milieu in which the essay was originally published. He closes his anthology with a bibliography of twentieth-century academic criticism of American realism and naturalism.
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Fair in Good jacket. C3-A first edition (complete numberline) hardcover book in fair condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, and few soiled patches on the edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, rubbing and soiled patches, a few scattered stains, significant underlining and some writing mostly in pencil, light discoloration and shelf wear. Contributors are James Lane Allen, Elizabeth Ammons, H.H. Boyesen, Randolph Bourne, Edwin H. Cady, Everett Carter, Richard Chase, Malcolm Cowley, Clarence Darrow, Theodore Dreiser, Robert Falk, James T. Farrell, Hamlin Garland, Richard Watson Gilder, Alfred Habegger, Frederick J. Hoffman, June Howard, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Amy Kaplan, Alfred Kazin, Harold H. Kolb, Jr., George Parsons Lathrop, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Frank Norris, V.L. Parrington, George Pellew, Donald Pizer, Stuart P. Sherman, Eric J. Sundquist, William Roscoe Thayer, Maurice Thompson, Lionel Trilling Charles C. Walcutt, Charles Dudley Warner, Kenneth W. Warren. 9.5"x6.5", 470 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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