TY - BOOK AU - Finan,E.Thomas TI - Reading Reality: Nineteenth-Century American Experiments in the Real SN - 9780813945613 AV - PS217.R4 .F563 2021 U1 - 810.9/12 PY - 2021/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - American literature-History and criticism-19th century KW - Realism in literature KW - Reality in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Real Excavation -- 2. The Drops of Summer Rain -- 3. In and Out of the Game with Walt Whitman -- 4. Disjunction-Disclosure-Dickinson -- 5. Challenging Appearances -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - By unpacking antebellum senses of the "real," Finan casts new light on the formal traits of the period's literature, the pressures of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, and the surprising possibilities of literary reading UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6367701 ER -