TY - BOOK ID - 1008721 TI - The novel art : elevations of American fiction after Henry James PY - 2001 SN - 0691088985 0691088993 0691214832 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - 820-3 "18/19" KW - American fiction KW - -Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - History and criticism KW - Technique KW - Philosophy KW - James, Henry KW - -Influence KW - History and criticism. KW - Technique. KW - 820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - -Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - -Literature KW - -820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd KW - Fiction writing KW - Writing, Fiction KW - Authorship KW - James, Henry, KW - Influence. KW - Dzheĭms, G. KW - Dzheĭms, Genri, KW - Jeimsŭ, Henri, KW - Джеймс, Генри, KW - ג׳יימס, הנרי, KW - ג׳ײמס, הנרי, KW - Τζειος, Χενρι, KW - جميس، هينري، KW - جيمز، هنرى KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - pastoral. KW - naturalism. KW - nativism. KW - immigration. KW - imagetext. KW - high art. KW - gender. KW - education. KW - detective novel. KW - anthropology;avant-garde. KW - Stein, Gertrud. KW - Oliphant, Margaret. KW - Mencken. KW - McKeon, Michael. KW - Malraux, Andre. KW - Liveright, Horace. KW - Levine, Lawrence. KW - Kreyliug, Michael. KW - Knopf. KW - Joyce, James. KW - Jameson, Fredric. KW - Hemingway, Ernest. KW - Grimwood, Michael. KW - Gather, Willa. KW - Fugitive-Agrarians. KW - Fried, Michael. KW - Debray, Regis. KW - Conrad, Joseph. KW - Bush, Ronald. KW - Black Mask. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Colonization KW - Anti-Catholicism KW - Catholics KW - Materialism KW - Mechanism (Philosophy) KW - Positivism KW - Science KW - Education KW - Fugitive–Agrarians. KW - anthropology. KW - avant-garde. KW - ROMAN AMERICAIN KW - JAMES (HENRY), 1843-1916 KW - ROMAN KW - 20E SIECLE KW - HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE KW - INFLUENCE KW - TECHNIQUE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1008721 AB - Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one. ER -