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050 00 $aPS379$b.H86 2009
082 00 $a813/.520912$222
100 1 $aHutner, Gordon.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87864816
245 10 $aWhat America read :$btaste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960 /$cGordon Hutner.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axi, 450 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [365]-424) and index.
520 1 $a"Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of America's confrontation with modernity." "Hutner explains that realist novels were frequently lauded when they first appeared. They are almost completely unread now, he contends, largely because they record the middle-class encounter with modern life. This middle-class realism, Hutner shows, reveals a surprising engagement with the social issues that most fully challenged readers in the United States, including race relations, politics, immigration, and sexuality. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly dominant middle class would have - and, Hutner suggests, should also lead us to wonder how our own contemporary novels will be remembered."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aRealism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111770
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107008
852 00 $bglx$hPS379$i.H86 2009