Getting at the Author: Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism

by Barbara Hochman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558497641
• ISBN13: 9781558497641
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"