Realism after the Individual : Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel

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Realism after the Individual : Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel

Walker, Rafael

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University of Chicago Press（2025/12発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780226845067

Full Description

A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age.

Realism after the Individual offers a new theoretical paradigm for understanding realist novels published in the United States between 1900 and 1920, a period that has been described wrongheadedly as a "gulf" or a "valley" in American literary history. In this generation of writers, only three have remained in favor among critics: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser. Others have disappeared from view altogether—writers such as Harold Frederic, Robert Grant, Robert Herrick, David Graham Phillips, and Booth Tarkington, all of whom were critically acclaimed bestsellers in their day.

As Rafael Walker shows, this generation of writers deserves new attention for the way they revised many core facets of the nineteenth-century novel in response to the historical shifts around it. This generation of novelists not only rejected liberal individualism but also formulated alternative paradigms for conceptualizing selfhood. The result was a slew of woman-centered realist novels that broke with literary precedent: The novels punish characters not for desiring too much but for failing to desire enough, they depict subjectivity not as private and interior but as outward-facing, and they view closure not as the novel's aim but as a convention to flout. Realism after the Individual both revises prevailing views of American realism and lays the foundation for an alternative account of the development of literary modernism, one that illuminates the continuity between realism and the modernism that followed it.

Introduction
Chapter One. Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism
Chapter Two. Changing the Subject of Realism: Dreiser, Grant, Wharton
Chapter Three. The Bildungsroman after Individualism: Herrick and Glasgow
Chapter Four. Created in Her Image: Remaking the Business Tycoon in American Fiction
Coda. The End: The Death of the American Dream and Birth of the Modernist Novel

Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index