It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Social Construction of American Realism by Amy Kaplan
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Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic narrative as a symbolic act of imagining and controlling the social upheavals of early modern capitalism, particularly class conflict and the development of mass culture. Brilliant analyses of works by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser illuminate the narrative process by which realism constructs a social world of conflict and change. "[Kaplan] offers some enthralling readings of major novels by Howells, Wharton, and Dreiser. It is a book which...
The Social Construction of American Realism by Amy Kaplan is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.
This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read The Social Construction of American Realism aloud.
The Social Construction of American Realism is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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