What was literary impressionism? /

The most famous statement associated with the idea of literary impressionism is Joseph Conrad's from the Preface to The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897): "My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make to feel - it is, before...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fried, Michael (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:	1800-1999 Impressionism in literature. Visual perception in literature. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) American literature. English literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The upturned page
Almayer's face
Invisible writing
Ford's impressionism
Some impressionist (and non-impressionist) faces
"A blankness to run at and dash your head against"
Maps, charts, and mist
The writing of revolution
Versions of regression
How literary impressionism ended
Coda: Four modernists.