Getting at the author
American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
Reader-response criticism
Authors and readers
Realism in literature
Appreciation
Criticism
American fiction
Books and reading
History and criticism
History
Fiction
"Throughout the nineteenth century, American readers and reviewers assumed that a book revealed its author's individuality, that the experience of reading was a kind of conversation with the writer. Yet as Barbara Hochman shows in this illuminating study, the emergence of literary realism at the tur…
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