Dr. Phillip Barrish

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Phillip Barrish is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research explores fictional representations of healthcare systems in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His scholarship focuses on the emergence of literary realism in relation to the United States Civil War and World War I. He has extensively researched the works of authors such as Edith Wharton, Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Charles Chesnutt. Barrish is the author of several books, including 'American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995' (Cambridge 2001), 'White Liberal Identity, Literary Pedagogy, Classic American Realism' (Ohio State 2005), and 'The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism' (Cambridge 2011).

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