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Downwardly mobile

Lawson, Andrew, 1959 July 4-

Downwardly mobile the changing fortunes of American realism / [electronic resource] : Andrew Lawson. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

This title 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.

9780199933334 (ebook) : No price


Realism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Economics in literature.
Financial crises in literature.
Social mobility in literature.
Social classes in literature.


United States--Economic conditions--19th century.

PS374.R37 / L39 2012

813.30912