American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract
- ISBN-10
- 0520206479
- ISBN-13
- 9780520206472
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 359
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Brook Thomas, University Brook Thomas
Description
"Moving expertly from legal analysis to social history to profoundly recontextualized literary critique, Thomas shows how writers like Twain, James, Howells, and Chopin took up contract as a model, formally and thematically evoking its possibilities and dramatizing its failures.
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