Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Zibrak, Arielle

Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era

Throughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like...
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Author: Arielle Zibrak
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Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era by Zibrak, Arielle

Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era

$118.15

Writing Against Reform: Aesthetic Realism in the Progressive Era

$118.15
Author: Arielle Zibrak
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Throughout the Progressive Era, reform literature became a central feature of the American literary landscape. Works like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper," and Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives topped bestseller lists and jolted middle-class readers into action.

While realism and social reform have a long-established relationship, prominent writers of the period such as Henry James, Edith Wharton, James Weldon Johnson, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Kate Chopin resisted explicit political rhetoric in their own works and critiqued reform aesthetics, which too often rang hollow. Arielle Zibrak reveals that while these writers were often seen as indifferent to the political currents of their time, their work is a part of a little explored debate on the relationship between literature and politics at the heart of Progressive Era publishing. Examining the critique of reform aesthetics within the tradition of American realist literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Writing Against Reform promises to change the way we think about the fiction of this period and many of America's leading writers.



Author: Arielle Zibrak
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 01/26/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
ISBN: 9781625347718

About the Author

ARIELLE ZIBRAK is associate professor of English at the University of Wyoming and author of Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures.


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