Faking It
Social Bluffing and Class Difference in Howells's The Rise of Silas Lapham
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16308526 |
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| Authors | Mary V Marchand (Goucher College, corresponding author), Mary Marchand (Mary V. Marchand is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the American Studies Program at Goucher College. Her scholarly work has focused on Howells, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Vernon Lee, and Bernard Berenson.) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 283-312 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq.2010.83.2.283 |
| OpenAlex | W2054502181 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In Howells's distinctive vision of the social world, there is something inimitable about upper- bourgeois culture—something that defies the aspirants' attempts to acquire or fake upper-class behaviors. In The Rise of Silas Lapham, he dramatizes for readers what none of his characters can articulate but all of them finally “feel,” namely the “fine yet impassable” differences between classes
Aesthetics · Art · Bourgeoisie · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Upper class · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Highly cited | No |
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