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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"American Realism"”.
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Constructing Urban Experience: American Realism, the Periodical Press, and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Cityscape
… in magazines alongside articles about developing American urban centers. By bringing together both the physical and publication contexts of realist fiction, this study offers a new reading of realism as embedded in debates about the relationship between urban environments and civil society.
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
… of plantation fiction writing during the era of American Realism, Charles Chesnutt was arguably one of the most controversial yet prolific authors to address the recent advent of slavery. <em>The Conjure Woman</em> was a publication of seven frame narratives that employed the traditional style of …
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Tensions between abstraction and replication in early-twentieth-century design : Norman Bel Geddes' designs for Broadway's The Miracle
<p>I make a major contribution to American scenographic historiography with this revised account of Norman Bel Geddes’ set for Max Reinhardt’s 1924 Broadway production of The Miracle, a design theatre scholars have consistently used not only to define Geddes’ aesthetic “versatility,” but also as a …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… traces an alternate literary history of American war, one written by soldiers from the early republic through Reconstruction. The soldier's authority has been largely misunderstood in the discussions we have about war's imaginative literature, yet nineteenth-century soldier voices …