Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 by David Emory Shi

Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920

David Emory Shi

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nonfiction art history
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"A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give artistic representation to gritty reality shocke...

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