TY - BOOK AU - Lawson,Andrew TI - Downwardly mobile: the changing fortunes of American realism SN - 9780199933334 (ebook) : AV - PS374.R37 L39 2012 U1 - 813.30912 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Realism in literature KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Economics in literature KW - Financial crises in literature KW - Social mobility in literature KW - Social classes in literature KW - United States KW - Economic conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199828050.001.0001 ER -