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Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Cary
Downwardly Mobile explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis,...
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Downwardly Mobile explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Hunger for the Real -- 2. Rose Terry Cooke and the Roots of Realist Taste -- 3. Rebecca Harding Davis and the Failed Genteel Father -- 4. The Artist of the Floating World: William Dean Howells -- 5. The Rentier Aesthetics of Henry James -- 6. Hamlin Garland's Vertical Vision -- 7. Coda: White-Collar Blues -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
