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Author Abeln, Paul

Title William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism
Published London : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (140 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; 1 "The Error He Championed": The Minister's Charge and Howells after The Rise of Silas Lapham; 2 A Hazard of New Fortunes and the "Aesthetic Immaturity of the American Reader"; 3 "Disintegrating under the Reader's Eye": The Aging Howells and His Public, 1890-1920; 4 The Leatherwood God and My Mark Twain: The Importance of Samuel Clemens in Howells's Literary Imagination after 1910; 5 The Vacation of the Kelwyns, "The Critical Bookstore," and Henry James's "Right of Leaning Back"; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography
Summary William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the development of an American literary tradition
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Subject Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 fast
Subject Realism in literature.
Realism in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203499498
0203499492