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03604aam a2200517 i 4500 001 5B4C4FC02E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230616s2024 maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023013414 020 $a 1625347723 020 $a 9781625347725 020 $a 1625347715 020 $a 9781625347718 035 $a (OCoLC)1374090080 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d CLO $d OBE $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS217.R4 $b Z53 2024 082 00 $a 813/.08309 $2 23/eng/20230726 100 1 $a Zibrak, Arielle, $e author. 245 10 $a Writing against reform : $b aesthetic realism in the Progressive Era / $c Arielle Zibrak. 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2024] 300 $a xiv, 256 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 0 $a Becoming modern: studies in the long nineteenth century 520 $a "Throughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action. While realism and social reform have a long-established relationship, prominent writers of the period such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Kate Chopin resisted explicit political rhetoric in their own works and critiqued reform aesthetics, which too often rang hollow. Arielle Zibrak reveals that while these writers were often seen as indifferent to the political currents of their time, they actively engaged in reform work in their private lives. Examining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America's leading writers"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-246) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : hideously political -- Against reform. Rebecca Harding David and celebrity reform -- There is no opposition. Political intimacy in Henry James -- Art in an emergency. James Weldon Johnson's political formalism -- Edith Wharton at war in the land of letters. 648 7 $a 1800-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Realism in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Social problems in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a American fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807048 650 7 $a Literature and society $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Realism in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01091237 650 7 $a Social problems in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122806 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Zibrak, Arielle. $t Writing against reform. $d Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2024 $z 9781685750459 $w (OCoLC)1391330110 $w (OCoLC)1391330110 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619012422.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B4C4FC02E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search