LEADER 03882nam 22006494 450 001 9910817200103321 005 20140811103214.0 010 $a0-8223-9993-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822399933 035 $a(CKB)3710000000222281 035 $a(OCoLC)891395473 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10909553 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11750290 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11289843 035 $a(PQKB)11385324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3007982 035 $a885838589 035 $a(OCoLC)1151072759 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80556 035 $a(DE-B1597)553518 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822399933 035 $a(OCoLC)1229160751 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000222281 100 $a20140808d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReading for realism $ethe history of a U.S. literary institution, 1850-1910 /$fNancy Glazener 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1997. 215 $a1 online resource (385 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-1880-6 311 $a0-8223-1870-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-362) and index. 327 $g1.$tHigh Realism and Other Bourgeois Institutions --$g2.$t"The Grand Reservoir of National Prosperity" --$g3.$tAddictive Reading and Professional Authorship --$g4.$tThe Romantic Revival --$g5.$tRegional Accents --$tConclusion: The End of the Atlantic Group, 1900-1910 --$gApp.$tThe Atlantic Group. 330 $aReading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the realist novel, the most influential literary form of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - a form she contends was only made possible by changes in the expectations of readers about pleasure and literary value. By tracing readers' collaborations in the production of literary forms, Reading for Realism turns nineteenth-century controversies about the realist, romance, and sentimental novels into episodes in the history of readership. It also shows how works of fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis, Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others participated in the debates about literary classification and reading that, in turn, created and shaped their audiences. Combining reception theory with a materialist analysis of the social formations in which realist reading practices circulated, Glazener's study reveals the elitist underpinnings of literary realism. At the book's center is the Atlantic group of magazines, whose influence was part of the cultural machinery of the Northeastern urban bourgeoisie and crucial to the development of literary realism in America. Glazener shows how the promotion of realism by this group of publications also meant a consolidation of privilege - primarily in terms of class, gender, race, and region - for the audience it served. Thus American realism, so often portrayed as a quintessentially populist form, actually served to enforce existing structures of class and power. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aAmerican periodicals$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRealism in the press 615 0$aAmerican periodicals$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aRealism in the press. 676 $a810.9/12 676 $a810.912 700 $aGlazener$b Nancy$01697162 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817200103321 996 $aReading for realism$94077657 997 $aUNINA