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The Social Construction of American Realism by Amy Kaplan

The Social Construction of American Realism

Amy Kaplan

198 pages first pub 1988 (view editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern c...

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