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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 fast |
Subject |
Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203499498 |
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0203499492 |
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