Competing Voices
Author | : Susan Van D'Elden Donaldson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015051303884 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Competing Voices written by Susan Van D'Elden Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the genre from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of World War I, from the transformations of later 19th-century America to the rise of modernism. Considers such dimensions as sentimentalism versus professionalism, realism, local color, novels of race and racism, new women writers, naturalism, and emergent modernism. Considers both the standard canon and works by people on the social fringes.