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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807872121

ISBN-139780807872123

eBay Product ID (ePID)109153509

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Book TitleWhat America Read : Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGeneral, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

FeaturesNew Edition

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorGordon Hutner

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight5 oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2008-050469

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThe originality of this project and the avenues it opens for further comparative work are undeniable. Hutner's book promises to enliven work in modernist and American studies, recalibrating our sense not only of what America read but of why that reading matters.-- Clio, Hutner's study should begin a useful discussion about how we judge literature and just where the value of a novel lies.-- The CEA Forum, "For more than twenty years, Gordon Hutner has been a leader in transforming the field of American literature studies. In What America Read , he makes a distinctive and original undertaking: to diagnose the soul of the American literate middle class over a crucial forty-year period by examining quality realist fiction and the critical conversations in which this fiction took part."--Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh, "In restoring to view the middle-class novels that chronicled Americans' multifaceted responses to modernity, Hutner is a master chronicler himself. His reclamation project--astutely directed at both criticism and fiction--enables us to recover a more accurate and a more democratic literary history than we have previously possessed."--Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester, author of Songs of Ourselves: American Readers and the Uses of Verse, The originality of this project and the avenues it opens for further comparative work are undeniable. Hutner's book promises to enliven work in modernist and American studies, recalibrating our sense not only of what America read but of why that reading matters. -- Clio, "Hutner surveys four decades of American fiction from the viewpoint of the reading public and the mainstream critics of the time, and reveals just how shifts in the currents of critical tastes can leave many good works stranded and quickly forgotten."--NeglectedBooks.com, "Hutner's study should begin a useful discussion about how we judge literature and just where the value of a novel lies."-- The CEA Forum, "An interesting analysis of how the literary academy decides which books will be remembered."-- The Wall Street Journal, "The originality of this project and the avenues it opens for further comparative work are undeniable. Hutner's book promises to enliven work in modernist and American studies, recalibrating our sense not only of what America read but of why that reading matters."-- Clio, "No one who studies or teaches U.S. fiction should overlook this sharp, luminous book. . . . Hutner's brilliance as synthesizer, theorizer, and literary historian makes this study shine, as both a straight read and a reference tool."-- Choice, Hutner surveys four decades of American fiction from the viewpoint of the reading public and the mainstream critics of the time, and reveals just how shifts in the currents of critical tastes can leave many good works stranded and quickly forgotten.--NeglectedBooks.com, No one who studies or teaches U.S. fiction should overlook this sharp, luminous book. . . . Hutner's brilliance as synthesizer, theorizer, and literary historian makes this study shine, as both a straight read and a reference tool. -- CHOICE, Hutner covers a great deal of ground with a good deal of clarity, and his book deserves to be read with close attention by anyone interested in the reading habits of the American public. -- The National Review, No one who studies or teaches U.S. fiction should overlook this sharp, luminous book. . . . Hutner's brilliance as synthesizer, theorizer, and literary historian makes this study shine, as both a straight read and a reference tool.-- Choice, Hutner's study should begin a useful discussion about how we judge literature and just where the value of a novel lies. -- The CEA Forum, Hutner covers a great deal of ground with a good deal of clarity, and his book deserves to be read with close attention by anyone interested in the reading habits of the American public.-- The National Review|9780807872123|, Hutner exhibits skillful precision in advancing through this often misty and stony literary landscape. . . . [An] entertaining and comprehensive survey.-- Publishing Research Quarterly, "Hutner exhibits skillful precision in advancing through this often misty and stony literary landscape. . . . [An] entertaining and comprehensive survey."-- Publishing Research Quarterly, "Hutner covers a great deal of ground with a good deal of clarity, and his book deserves to be read with close attention by anyone interested in the reading habits of the American public."-- The National Review, "Hutner surveys four decades of American fiction from the viewpoint of the reading public and the mainstream critics of the time, and reveals just how shifts in the currents of critical tastes can leave many good works stranded and quickly forgotten."--Ne, Hutner surveys four decades of American fiction from the viewpoint of the reading public and the mainstream critics of the time, and reveals just how shifts in the currents of critical tastes can leave many good works stranded and quickly forgotten. -- NeglectedBooks.com, An interesting analysis of how the literary academy decides which books will be remembered.-- The Wall Street Journal, The originality of this project and the avenues it opens for further comparative work are undeniable. Hutner's book promises to enliven work in modernist and American studies, recalibrating our sense not only of what America read but of why that reading|9780807872123|, An interesting analysis of how the literary academy decides which books will be remembered. -- The Wall Street Journal, Hutner exhibits skillful precision in advancing through this often misty and stony literary landscape. . . . [An] entertaining and comprehensive survey. -- Publishing Research Quarterly

Dewey Decimal813/.520912

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisExplores the distorted, canonised history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of the American middle-class's confrontation with modernity., Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of the American middle-class's confrontation with modernity. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly dominant middle class would have -- and, Hutner suggests, should also lead us to wonder how our own contemporary novels will be remembered., Despite the vigorous study of modern American fiction, today's readers are only familiar with a partial shelf of a vast library. Gordon Hutner describes the distorted, canonized history of the twentieth-century American novel as a record of modern classics insufficiently appreciated in their day but recuperated by scholars in order to shape the grand tradition of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. In presenting literary history this way, Hutner argues, scholars have forgotten a rich treasury of realist novels that recount the story of the American middle-class's confrontation with modernity. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly dominant middle class would have--and, Hutner suggests, should also lead us to wonder how our own contemporary novels will be remembered.