Barrish, Phillip. American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995.(Book Review)

From: Studies in American Fiction | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Young, Elizabeth | Copyright information

Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001. 213 pp. Cloth: $54.95.

This is an important and impressive book--ambitious in its claims, wide-ranging in its literary and theoretical scope, and sophisticated in its prose. Barrish focuses on works by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, and he argues that the realism of these works is linked to their representation of intellectual authority and cultural prestige. Realist fiction, he suggests, offers...

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