AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT by Andrew Hook ( 9781138691216 )

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AMERICAN LITERATURE IN CONTEXT
1865-1900

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Andrew Hook

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20 December, 2017

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210

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First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation's literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their rapidly changing world. In addition to such major figures as Walt Whitman, Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, it analyses the writings of an unorthodox economist (Henry George), a Utopian reformer (Edward Bellamy) and a critical sociologist (Thorstein Veblen). Particular attention is paid to the challenge to conventional literary and cultural values represented by writers such as William Dean Howell who pursued a new form of scientific, democratic realism in American writing.This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

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