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Amanda Claybaugh - The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World - 9780801444807 - V9780801444807
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The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World

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Description for The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.

In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists—gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers—and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801444807
SKU
V9780801444807
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Amanda Claybaugh
Amanda Claybaugh is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia University.

Reviews for The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World
In a work of impressive range and depth, Amanda Claybaugh focuses on the exchanges and reciprocal influences of American and English novelists of the nineteenth century. Several concentric arguments thread through Claybaugh's book, but the most foundational is the contention that English-language print culture in the nineteenth century was above all transnational, bound together by transatlantic reprinting, circulation, and mutual ... Read more

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