{"product_id":"the-novel-of-purpose-amanda-claybaugh-9780801444807","title":"The Novel of Purpose: Literature and Social Reform in the Anglo-American World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers--antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists--gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers--and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them are some of the century's most important authors: Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Mark Twain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Novel of Purpose\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Claybaugh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nations, but also to the many groups that collaborate across national boundaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Claybaugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801444802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801444807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Amanda Claybaugh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926116925695,"sku":"9780801444807","price":71.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_27fff854-efe4-42ca-bc01-7f6d461f9ef0.jpg?v=1681081296","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-novel-of-purpose-amanda-claybaugh-9780801444807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}