Michael Fried is J. R. Herbert Boone Professor Emeritus of Humanities and the History of Art and Academy Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
In this book, Michael Fried has given us the best account of the
relation of literary writing to its material basis in ink, paper,
print, and corporeal movement. What Was Literary Impressionism?
transforms our sense of a vital literary tradition and provides
revelatory new readings of key texts by writers including Frank
Norris, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and many others. This is a
major book by one of the most powerful and influential critical
minds of our time.
*Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve University*
Michael Fried subtly traces in varied detail a recurring scene in
Anglo-American fiction of the turn of the nineteenth century. The
display and occlusion of this scene—the scene of writing itself—is
the ‘project’ and the ‘problematic’ of literary impressionism:
modern but not modernist. The modernists, we may believe,
foregrounded language, and even print, but they did not worry about
the physical act of writing as the impressionists did. Fried hopes
his book may ‘somewhat transform the terms’ of our understanding of
a specific literary moment. It will do more than that. It will, if
we let it, revise and enrich that understanding to an almost
unimaginable degree.
*Michael Wood, Princeton University*
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