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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher P Wilson |
ISBN: | 9780820336985 082033698X |
OCLC Number: | 813423647 |
Description: | xviii, 239 pages ; 23 cm |
Responsibility: | Christopher P. Wilson. |
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A fascinating book . . . Wilson analyzes how each man responded, for his own reasons and in his own ways, to the literary professionalism of the time and how all four eventually became disillusioned with their careers.|Wilson's book is less a reinvention than it is a reenvisioning. . . . In a compact chronicle and analysis he reveals how newspapers, literary journals, and book publishing adapted to a revolutionary economics challenging the genteel manners of the Gilded Age and initiated a highly competitive, engineered mass-marketing of news, information, and fiction.|Demonstrates forcefully the intimate and continuing connections between reporting and the practice and themes of American fiction. Read more...


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- American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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