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American literary realism and the failed promise of contract
Law in literature
American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Social status
Realism in literature
Languages & Literatures
Social ethics
Literature and society
American
LITERARY CRITICISM
American fiction
American literature
English
General
History and criticism
History
"Moving expertly from legal analysis to social history to profoundly recontextualized literary critique, Thomas shows how writers like Twain, James, Howells, and Chopin took up contract as a model, formally and thematically evoking its possibilities and dramatizing its failures.
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