{"product_id":"the-novel-art-elevations-of-american-fiction-after-henry-james-9780691088990","title":"The Novel Art  Elevations of American Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. This title tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. It examines the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This] intriguing book traces James's efforts to promote the Anglo-American novel as not only higher than mere popular entertainment but as a potential claimant for fine art... McGurl's book is highly recommended and a successor to Henry James's The Art of the Novel.\"--Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  Introduction: The Rise of the Art-Novel and the Question of Class 1  Certain Novels 1  Mental Labor 10  Methodological Philistinism: From Difference to Distinction 19  One: The Mind's Eye and Mental Labor: Forms of Distinction in the Fiction of Henry James 30  The Novel as Masterpiece 30  Epistemologies of Social Class 42  The Romance of Romance: Virtue Unrewarded 49  Divisive Perspectivism 53  Two: Social Geometries: Taking Place in the Jamesian Modernist Text 57  The Hidden Dimensions of Class 57  Fictions of the Class 66  Extraordinary Readers 74  Three: Downward Mobilities: The Prison of the Womb and the Architecture of Career in Stephen Crane 78  House of Fiction, House of Shame 78  Urban Ambitions: Crane, Wharton, O. Henry 85  Transient Occupations: From Howells to Crane to Dos Passos 102  Four: Highbrows and Du b Blondes: Literary Intellectuals and the Romance of Intelligence 106  Playing Dumb with Anita Loos 106  Bad Students and Smart Sets 111  Morons and Moralizers: The Eugenic Romance 118  Smart White Blacks: Mencken, Stein, and Race 124  Pastoral Intellection 129  Five: Faulkner's Ambit: Modernism, Regionalism, and the Location of Cultural Capital 135  Racinations: A Deeper South 135  Relations: Modernism and Mules 146  Six Making \"Literature\" of It: Dashiell Ha ett and the Mysteries of High Culture 158  God, Mammon, and Willard Wright 158  Murdering Representation 166  Afterword: Mobius Fictions 177  Notes 183  Index 215","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359103615319,"sku":"9780691088990","price":42.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691088990.jpg?v=1754123600","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-novel-art-elevations-of-american-fiction-after-henry-james-9780691088990","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}