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American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract New ed


ISBN13: 9780520216648
ISBN: 0520216644
Published: February 1999
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
Format: Paperback
Price: Out of print



In law, the late 19th century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas brings contract and realism together to offer insights into both areas while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition from industrial capitalism to the corporate capitalism of the 20th century. Moving from legal analysis to social history to recontextualized literary critique, Thomas shows how writers like Twain, James, Howells, Chopin and Chesnutt took up contract as a model, formally and thematically, evoking its possibilities and dramatizing its failures.