What Was Literary Impressionism?

by Michael Fried

"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. That--and no more, and it is every-thing." So wrote Joseph Conrad in the best-known account of literary impressionism, the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement featuring narratives that paint pictures in readers' minds. If literary impressionism is anything, it is the project...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674980794
• ISBN13: 9780674980792
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"