Gender, Fantasy, and Realism in American Literature / / Alfred Habegger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Habegger, Alfred,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1982]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 1982
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part I. Marriage --; 1. A Genre and Its Absorbed Audience --; 2. Fantasy in the Novel --; 3. Love-Interest --; 4. Home Sweet Home --; 5. Domestic Bitterness as Presented in Popular Women's Novels --; 6. John William De Forest vs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps --; 7. Henry James and W. D. Howells as Sissies --; 8. The Portrait of a Lady --; 9. Their Wedding Journey --; 10. A Modern Instance --; 11. Realism --; Part II. Male and Female Humor --; 12. Easygoing Men and Dressy Ladies --; 13. Taking Down the Big One: From Frontier Boaster to Deadpan Loser to Boy --; 14. Petticoat Humor --; 15. Funny Women --; 16. Funny Tomboys --; 17. Penelope Lapham in The Rise of Silas Lapham --; Part III. W. D. Howells and American Masculinity --; 18. The Male Risk --; 19. That Old Gang of Mine --; 20. Ambition vs. Selflessness --; 21. "The Best Men" --; Part IV. The Gentleman of Shalott: Henry James and American Masculinity --; 22. The Plot with a Secret --; 23. The Boy Who Could Not Become a Man --; 24. "Observing": The View from James's Room in the House of Fiction --; 25. Who Made James the Modern American Master, and Why? --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231882897; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/habe91268
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alfred Habegger.

Makes a case for seeing realism as the central and preeminent literary type in democratic, and discusses the role the novel plays in shaping the identity of the reader. Specifically addresses the topics of marriage and male and female humor in the novel, as well as masculinity in the novels of Henry James and W.D. Howells.