Description: Reading for Reform : The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era, Hardcover by Fisher, Laura R., ISBN 1517903823, ISBN-13 9781517903824, Brand New, Free shipping in the US An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and . literary history at the turn of the twentieth century Reading for Reform rewrites the literary history of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America by putting social reform institutions at the center of literary and cultural analysis. Examining the vibrant, often fractious literary cultures that developed as part of the Progressive mandate to uplift the socially disadvantaged, it shows that in these years reformers saw literature as a way to combat the myriad social problems that plagued modern . society. As they developed distinctly literary methods for Americanizing immigrants, uplifting and refining wage-earning women, and educating black students, their institutions gave rise to a new social purpose for literature. Class-bridging reform institutions&;the urban settlement house, working girls&; club, and African American college&;are rarely addressed in literary history. Yet, Laura R. Fisher argues, they engendered important experiments in the form and social utility of American literature, from minor texts of Yiddish drama and little-known periodical and reform writers to the fiction of Edith Wharton and Nella Larsen. Fisher delves into reform&;s vast and largely unexplored institutional archives to show how dynamic sites of modern literary culture developed at the margins of social power. Fisher reveals how reformist approaches to race, class, religion, and gender formation shaped American literature between the 1880s and the 1920s. In doing so, she tells a new story about the fate of literary practice, and the idea of literature&;s practical value, during the very years that modernist authors were proclaiming art&;s autonomy from concepts of social utility.
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Book Title: Reading for Reform : The Social Work of Literature in the Progres
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Reading for Reform : the Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: Social Work, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, General, American / General, Books & Reading
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Author: Laura R. Fisher
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
