The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction After Henry James

by Mark McGurl

Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691088993
• ISBN13: 9780691088990
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"