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Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class de Stephanie C. Palmer

Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class

Autor Stephanie C. Palmer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2008
This fascinating account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work done by authors writing during the Gilded Age. Stephanie C. Palmer shows how events like broken carriage wheels and missed trains were used by local color authors to bring together bourgeois and lower-class characters, thus giving readers the opportunity to see modernity coming into contact with both rural and urban life.

Using the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, Palmer traces the use of the regional travel accident motif and how local color writers employed it to give critiques on class, society, and modern life. Exploring the themes of regional identity, modernity, and interpersonal relationships, Together by Accident offers an intriguing evaluation of the innovations and inconveniences associated with life during the industrializing Gilded Age in America.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780739124949
ISBN-10: 0739124943
Pagini: 225
Dimensiuni: 162 x 238 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Can the Genteel Writer Write the Local Novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke
Chapter 4 2. Travel Delays in the Commercial Countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett
Chapter 5 3. Travel Delays and Provincial Ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter
Chapter 6 4. Realist Magic in the Country and the City: William Dean Howells
Chapter 7 5. Angry Reform from Elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Chapter 8 Epilogue
9 Notes
10 Bibliography
11 Index
12 About the Author

Recenzii

Her work is historically grounded, attentive to the text as a site of meaning, and an engaging read.
Stephanie C. Palmer's Together By Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class is theoretically savvy and historically conscientious. Treating travel-and the accidents that can ensue-as a literary trope with concrete roots in historical facts allows Palmer to revise much of what has been said about Local Color fiction. Just as importantly, the book also affirms the value of keeping the gap between historical events and their literary representation: mining that distinction allows for a richer understanding of the ways literature interacts with but does not capitulate to history. In other words, the success of Palmer's study is no accident.
It incorporates a depth and scope of study that thoroughly and impressively engages with literary, historical, geographical, and anthropological theorists discussing how region is experienced in the United States. User friendly, Palmer manages to incorporate thematic reiterations that continue to spiral out in new directions engaging the complexities of the local color debate. Kudos for this savvy, fascinating read.