Frantic Panoramas – American Literature and Mass Culture, 187–192
Autor Nancy Bentleyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 iun 2009
For literary writers, Bentley explains, the confrontation with mass culture was less a retreat than a transformation, an ordeal through which habits of contemplative appreciation could be refashioned into new forms of critical thought. By grappling with the energies that marked mass culture, authors came to recognize kinds of human experience that were only then becoming visible as public. William Dean Howells shaped the plots of his novels around tabloid events like rail and trolley accidents and the public chaos of apartment house fires. Although Henry James was distressed at the way dime fiction had changed the very definition of literature, his meditations on mass culture led him to reimagine the novel as a collective "workshop" in which authors and readers jointly discovered new meaning. Bentley offers close readings of these and other writers such as Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Pauline Hopkins, and Gertrude Bonnin to demonstrate how leading artists took inspiration from commercial culture to create new and distinct literary forms.
Drawing on original archival research and a historically grounded theory of realism, "Frantic Panoramas" is an innovative and comprehensive study of how the emergence of mass culture affected literary culture in America."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780812241747
ISBN-10: 0812241746
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 176 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0812241746
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 176 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Editura: MT – University of Pennsylvania Press
Locul publicării:United States