American literary realism and the failed promise of contract
by Brook Thomas
Promise (Law) in literatureLiterature and societyRealism in literatureSocial status in literatureSocial ethics in literatureHistory and criticismContracts in literatureAmerican fiction
"Moving expertly from legal analysis to social history to profoundly recontextualized literary critique, Thomas shows how writers like Twain, James, Howells, and Chopin took up contract as a model, formally and thematically evoking its possibilities and dramatizing its failures.
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