Search Results for: American Literary Realism And The Failed Promise Of Contract

"Moving expertly from legal analysis to social history to profoundly recontextualized literary critique, Thomas shows how writers like Twain, James, Howells, an

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest m

The scholarship devoted to American literary realism has long wrestled with problems of definition: is realism a genre, with a particular form, content, and tec

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining int