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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 (Hardcover)
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Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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The terms 'poetry' and 'realism' have a complex and often
oppositional relationship in American literary histories of the
postbellum period. The core narrative holds that 'realism', the
major literary 'movement' of the era, developed apace in prose
fiction, while poetry, stuck in a hopelessly idealist late-Romantic
mode, languished and stagnated. Poetry is almost entirely absent
from scholarship on American literary realism except as the emblem
of realism's opposite: a desiccated genteel 'twilight of the
poets.' Realist Poetics in American Culture, 1866-1900 refutes the
familiar narrative of postbellum poetics as a scene of failure, and
it recovers the active and variegated practices of a diverse array
of realist poets across print culture. The triumph of the twilight
tale in the twentieth century obscured, minimized, and flattened
the many poetic discourses of the age, including but not limited to
a significant body of realist poems currently missing from US
literary histories. Excavating an extensive archive of realist
poems, the volume offers a significant revision to the
genre-exclusive story of realism and, by extension, to the very
foundations of postbellum American literary history dating back to
the earliest stages of the discipline.
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