William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

ISBN-13: 9780415970969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 174 str.

Paul Abeln; Abeln Abeln; David Daniell

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: The Error He Championed: The Minister's Charge and Howells after The Rise of Silas Lapham Chapter 2: A Hazard of New Fortunes and the Aesthetic Immaturity of the American Reader Chapter 3: Disintegrating Under the Reader's Eye: The Aging Howells and his Public, 1890-1920 Chapter 4: The Leatherwood God and My Mark Twain: The Importance of Samuel Clemens in Howells's Literary Imagination after 1910 Chapter 5: The Vacation of the Kelwyns, The Critical Bookstore, and Henry James's Right of Leaning Back. Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Paul Abeln received his Ph.D. American and Comparative Literature from Washington University in 2000.