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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2018.
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| 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.