American realists and naturalists /
Imprint: | Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1982. |
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Description: | xi, 486 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 12 |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5677576 |
Summary: | Americas Civil War not only brought to an end the transcendental idealism of the early nineteenth century, it also marked the beginning of an era of significant growth for a largely commercial and urban middle class. With an audience seeking works that rendered American life in the light of common day, writers of realistic and naturalistic fiction flourished-two distinct generations of writers, each generation sharing a similar set of assumptions about literature. Both groups expressed a vision of life which their contemporaries shared, combining autobiographical and comic threads and revealing themes through action. American modernism has its roots in writing represented in this DLB volume-turn-of-the-century writers (most born in the early 1870s) who helped create the modern temper in America in the years preceding the first World War. 42 entries include: Henry Adams, Edward Bellamy, Samuel L. Clemens, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Wilkins Freema, Bret Harte, Henry James, Jack London, Frederic Remington, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Constance Fenimore Woolson. |
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Item Description: | "A Bruccoli Clark book." "Cumulative index, volumes 1-12": p. 469-486. |
Physical Description: | xi, 486 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm. |
ISBN: | 0810311496 |