01744nam a2200373 a 4500 EDZ0000084697 StDuBDS 20170830091355.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120515s2012 nyu fo| 000 0 eng|d 9780199933334 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS374.R37 L39 2012 813.30912 23 Lawson, Andrew, 1959 July 4- Downwardly mobile : the changing fortunes of American realism / [electronic resource] Andrew Lawson. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. Includes bibliographical references. This title explores the links between a growing sense of economic precariousness within the American middle class and the development of literary realism over the course of the nineteenth century, as it examines works by Rebecca Harding Davis, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, and others. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 15, 2012). Realism in literature. American fiction 19th century History and criticism. American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Economics in literature. Financial crises in literature. Social mobility in literature. Social classes in literature. United States Economic conditions 19th century. Print version 9780199828050 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199828050.001.0001 ddc BK 37146 37146