The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea by Michael Davitt Bell

The Problem of American Realism: Studies in the Cultural History of a Literary Idea

Michael Davitt Bell

256 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

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Ever since William Dean Howells declared his "realism war" in the 1880s, literary historians have regarded the rise of realism and naturalism as the signal development in post-Civil War American fiction. Questioning this generalization, Michael Da...

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