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- catalog abstract ""Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer. Yet as Barbara Hochman shows in this illuminating study, the emergence of literary realism at the turn of the century called such assumptions into question. The realist aesthetic of narrative "objectivity" challenged the notion that a literary text reflects its author's personality." "In analyzing the battle over realism and the gradual shift in conventional reading practices, Hochman draws on a rich array of sources, including popular works, advertisements, letters, and reviews. She combines traditional modes of literary inquiry with methods adapted from the new historicism, cultural studies, and book history. By elucidating the realists' ambivalence about their own aesthetic criteria, she shows how a late nineteenth-century conflict about reading practices reflected pressing tensions in American culture, and how that conflict shaped criteria of literary value for most of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12114868.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In analyzing the battle over realism and the gradual shift in conventional reading practices, Hochman draws on a rich array of sources, including popular works, advertisements, letters, and reviews. She combines traditional modes of literary inquiry with methods adapted from the new historicism, cultural studies, and book history. By elucidating the realists' ambivalence about their own aesthetic criteria, she shows how a late nineteenth-century conflict about reading practices reflected pressing tensions in American culture, and how that conflict shaped criteria of literary value for most of the twentieth century."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer. Yet as Barbara Hochman shows in this illuminating study, the emergence of literary realism at the turn of the century called such assumptions into question. The realist aesthetic of narrative "objectivity" challenged the notion that a literary text reflects its author's personality."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism -- Reading for the Author: "Friendly Reading" in Nineteenth-Century America -- The Erosion of "Friendly" Reading: The Realist Challenge -- Refusing Authorial Self-effacement: Popular Fictions at the Turn of the Century -- The Return of the Author: The Realist Writer as a Woman Onstage -- Getting at the Hidden Author in the Text.".
- catalog extent "xi, 185 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1558492879 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in print culture and the history of the book".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst, MA : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.40912 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Criticism United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Appreciation United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PS374.R37 H64 2001".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog subject "Realism in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism -- Reading for the Author: "Friendly Reading" in Nineteenth-Century America -- The Erosion of "Friendly" Reading: The Realist Challenge -- Refusing Authorial Self-effacement: Popular Fictions at the Turn of the Century -- The Return of the Author: The Realist Writer as a Woman Onstage -- Getting at the Hidden Author in the Text.".
- catalog title "Getting at the author : reimagining books and reading in the age of American realism / Barbara Hochman.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".