Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste
- Chapter 2 The “facts of physical suffering,” the literary intellectual, and The Wings of the Dove
- Chapter 3 The “genuine article”: credit and ethnicity in The Rise of David Levinsky
- Chapter 4 What Nona knows
- Chapter 5 From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 William Dean Howells and the roots of realist taste
- Chapter 2 The “facts of physical suffering,” the literary intellectual, and The Wings of the Dove
- Chapter 3 The “genuine article”: credit and ethnicity in The Rise of David Levinsky
- Chapter 4 What Nona knows
- Chapter 5 From reality, to materiality, to the real (and back again): the dynamics of distinction on the recent critical scene
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001