ISBN10: 0691088993, ISBN13: 9780691088990, [publisher: Princeton University Press 04 N] Softcover The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 2001. Paperback. New. 221 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. 2001. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691088993 9780691088990 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691088993, ISBN13: 9780691088990, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before.Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it ...
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Princeton Univ Pr, Date: 2001. Paperback. New. 221 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. 2001. Princeton Univ Pr ISBN 0691088993 9780691088990 [GB]

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