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245 10 a| Realism after the individual :b| women, desire, and the modern American novel /c| Rafael Walker.;

264 1 a| Chicago, IL :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| 2026.;

300 a| 189 pages ;c| 23 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.;

505 0 a| Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism -- Changing the Subject of Realism: Dreiser, Grant, Wharton -- The Bildungsroman after Individualism: Herrick and Glasgow -- Created in Her Image: Remaking the Business Tycoon in American Fiction -- Coda : The End: The Death of the American Dream and Birth of the Modernist Novel.;

520 a| "A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age. Realism after the Individual offers a new theoretical paradigm for understanding realist novels published in the United States between 1900 and 1920, a period that has been described wrongheadedly as a "gulf" or a "valley" in American literary history. In this generation of writers, only three have remained in favor among critics: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser. Others have disappeared from view altogether - writers such as Harold Frederic, Robert Grant, Robert Herrick, David Graham Phillips, and Booth Tarkington, all of whom were critically acclaimed bestsellers in their day. As Rafael Walker shows, this generation of writers deserves new attention for the way they revised many core facets of the nineteenth-century novel in response to the historical shifts around it. This generation of novelists not only rejected liberal individualism but also formulated alternative paradigms for conceptualizing selfhood. The result was a slew of woman-centered realist novels that broke with literary precedent: the novels punish characters not for desiring too much but for failing to desire enough; they depict subjectivity not as private and interior, but outward-facing; and they view closure not as the novel's aim but a convention to flout. Realism after the Individual both revises prevailing views of American realism and lays the foundation for an alternative account of the development of literary modernism, one that illuminates the continuity between realism and the modernism that followed it"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Realism after the individual : women, desire, and the modern American novel / Rafael Walker.

Author/creator	Walker, Rafael author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2026.
Copyright Date	©2026
Description	189 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism. American literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.

Contents	Kate Chopin and the Dilemma of Individualism -- Changing the Subject of Realism: Dreiser, Grant, Wharton -- The Bildungsroman after Individualism: Herrick and Glasgow -- Created in Her Image: Remaking the Business Tycoon in American Fiction -- Coda : The End: The Death of the American Dream and Birth of the Modernist Novel.
Abstract	"A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age. Realism after the Individual offers a new theoretical paradigm for understanding realist novels published in the United States between 1900 and 1920, a period that has been described wrongheadedly as a "gulf" or a "valley" in American literary history. In this generation of writers, only three have remained in favor among critics: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser. Others have disappeared from view altogether - writers such as Harold Frederic, Robert Grant, Robert Herrick, David Graham Phillips, and Booth Tarkington, all of whom were critically acclaimed bestsellers in their day. As Rafael Walker shows, this generation of writers deserves new attention for the way they revised many core facets of the nineteenth-century novel in response to the historical shifts around it. This generation of novelists not only rejected liberal individualism but also formulated alternative paradigms for conceptualizing selfhood. The result was a slew of woman-centered realist novels that broke with literary precedent: the novels punish characters not for desiring too much but for failing to desire enough; they depict subjectivity not as private and interior, but outward-facing; and they view closure not as the novel's aim but a convention to flout. Realism after the Individual both revises prevailing views of American realism and lays the foundation for an alternative account of the development of literary modernism, one that illuminates the continuity between realism and the modernism that followed it"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-184) and index.
LCCN	2025015224
ISBN	9780226845067
ISBN	9780226845050 hardcover
ISBN	0226845052 hardcover
ISBN	0226845060 paperback
ISBN	electronic book

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