SOURCE: “Fictions of the Real,” in The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age, Hill and Wang, 1982, pp. 182-207.
In the essay below, Trachtenberg follows the development of Realism during the Gilded Age as a reaction against the sentimentalism of earlier romances and dime novels.
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