Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

by Andrew Lawson

Book Overview

In the unstable economy of the nineteenth-century, few Americans could feel secure. Paper money made values less tangible, while a series of financial manias, panics, and depressions clouded everyday life with uncertainty and risk. In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Lawson traces the origins of American realism to a new structure of feeling: the desire of embattled and aspiring middle class for a more solid and durable reality.
The story begins...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019937502X
• ISBN13: 9780199375028
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"