Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era,Used

Reading for Reform: The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era,Used

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An unprecedented examination of classbridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth centuryReading 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 U.S. society. As they developed distinctly literary methods for Americanizing immigrants, uplifting and refining wageearning women, and educating black students, their institutions gave rise to a new social purpose for literature.Classbridging reform institutionsthe urban settlement house, working girls club, and African American collegeare 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 littleknown periodical and reform writers to the fiction of Edith Wharton and Nella Larsen. Fisher delves into reforms 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 literatures practical value, during the very years that modernist authors were proclaiming arts autonomy from concepts of social utility.

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