What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 - Couverture souple

Hutner, Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807872121 ISBN 13 : 9780807872123

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Synopsis

Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of the American middle-class's confrontation with modernity. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly dominant middle class would have -- and, Hutner suggests, should also lead us to wonder how our own contemporary novels will be remembered.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gordon Hutner is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and founding editor of the journal American Literary History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807872121
• ISBN 13: 9780807872123
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
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