Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market

by Daniel H. Borus

In this powerful literary history, Daniel Borus traces the social and economic conditions that helped to produce American realism. Analyzing publishing records, personal correspondence, and essays by William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Frank Norris, Borus explores the connection between the changing process of authorship and the formal properties of realism.

Rather than treat literature as an autonomous formal discourse, Borus concentrates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807818690
• ISBN13: 9780807818695
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.3"