과잉의 문화정치—『사일러스 라팜의 성장』에나타난 대중문화와 리얼리즘
The Cultural Politics of Excess: Mass Culture and Realism in The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells has been widely recognized as a writer who formulatedthe theory of American realism in opposition to the increasing vulgarizationof cultural taste, evidenced most dramatically by the ascendancy ofsentimental novels and romantic historical novels. Howellsian realism hasthus been understood as the cultural shield against the rising tide of capitalismand mass culture, and The Rise of Silas Lapham, among others, has been toutedas the quintessence of the realist novel. The novel, however, is studdedwith the odd moments of excess strikingly at variance with realist norms, andthese excesses can best be understood as the unacknowledged traces of massculture. In short, this paper will show how The Rise of Silas Lapham feeds on,and is undermined by, the very element which it seeks to resist, by tracingmass-cultural excesses in Lapham. This paper will further argue that thenovel registers less a retreat into the precapitalist agrarian community or acultural war against capitalism, as some critics have claimed, than the relentlesspersistence of capitalism.
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William Dean Howells has been widely recognized as a writer who formulatedthe theory of American realism in opposition to the increasing vulgarizationof cultural taste, evidenced most dramatically by the ascendancy ofsentimental novels and romantic historical novels. Howellsian realism hasthus been understood as the cultural shield against the rising tide of capitalismand mass culture, and The Rise of Silas Lapham, among others, has been toutedas the quintessence of the realist novel. The novel, however, is studdedwith the odd moments of excess strikingly at variance with realist norms, andthese excesses can best be understood as the unacknowledged traces of massculture. In short, this paper will show how The Rise of Silas Lapham feeds on,and is undermined by, the very element which it seeks to resist, by tracingmass-cultural excesses in Lapham. This paper will further argue that thenovel registers less a retreat into the precapitalist agrarian community or acultural war against capitalism, as some critics have claimed, than the relentlesspersistence of capitalism.
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