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Author McGurl, Mark, 1966-

Title The novel art : elevations of American fiction after Henry James / Mark McGurl
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 221 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The Rise of the Art-Novel and the Question of Class -- 1. The Mind's Eye and Mental Labor: Forms of Distinction in the Fiction of Henry James -- 2. Social Geometries: Taking Place in the Jamesian Modernist Text -- 3. Downward Mobilities: The Prison of the Womb and the Architecture of Career in Stephen Crane -- 4. Highbrows and Dumb Blondes: Literary Intellectuals and the Romance of Intelligence -- 5. Faulkner's Ambit: Modernism, Regionalism, and the Location of Cultural Capital -- 6. Making "Literature" of It: Dashiell Hammett and the Mysteries of High Culture -- Afterword: Mobius Fictions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-213) and index
Notes English
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Subject James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Influence
SUBJECT James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast
Andrae, A. gnd (DE-588)156400294
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fiction -- Technique.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction
Fiction -- Technique
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Roman
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780691214832
0691214832