Guilty Pleasures : Popular Novels and American Audiences in the Long Nineteenth Century /

"Examining reactions to bestselling fiction in America from 1850-1920, the period in which popular novels became national phenomena, Guilty Pleasures argues that ambivalence about public taste sparked a wide-ranging exploration of individualism and national identity"--

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Autor principal: McIntosh, Hugh, 1978- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv5rf6zw
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: the not-so-great American novel
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin and the unprivileged public sphere
  • Ben-Hur: spectacles of belief
  • British authorship, American advertising
  • Questionable Americans abroad
  • Unknowing American realism: Uncle Tom's Cabin to Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, and James Baldwin
  • Afterword: the novel and America abroad now.