The shadow of a dream and An imperative duty, introd
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780742534025 |
These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly proto-Freudian, and a drama of miscegenation-are anything but the "smiling", lightweight topics to which Howells has been supposed to have been confined. The maturity both of their art and of their moral insight lends them an impact much deeper and more permanent than that of the shriller, more merely commercial shocking fiction of our day. Edwin H. Cady's introduction places the books in the context of the development of Howells' life, work, art, thought, and sensibility. He helps the reader make immediate contact with the artistic methods and intentions of the author.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : William Dean HOWELLS |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1970 |
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ISBN | : 9780253351906 |
Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : Susan Goodman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2005-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 052093024X |
Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the American artistic ethos. William Dean Howells traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly. It looks at his writing, which included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism. Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain called him, "the boss" of literary critics—his support almost single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett. Showcasing many noteworthy personalities—Henry James, Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others—William Dean Howells portrays a man who stood at the center of American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Melanie Dawson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0472052705 |
A historically informed approach to realist-era American fiction, engaging with contemporary affect theory, evolutionary theory, studies of realism, and studies of affect in American literature
Author | : Brook Thomas |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520326113 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in `1997.
Author | : Michele Birnbaum |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2003-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521824257 |
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