The Ferment of Realism: American Literature, 1884-1919

by Warner Berthoff

Book Overview

This book traces the central developments in American literature between and 1919. It opens with an account of the consolidation of realism as the dominant standard of critical value and brings the reader forward to the moment, at the end of World War I, when American writers began to take a recognized place among the masters of literary modernism. The ascendancy of the novel as the principal genre of the realists is presented against a broader cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052128435X
• ISBN13: 9780521284356
• Release Date: July 1981
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"