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Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
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Description
As a turn-of-the-century literary giant, Howell stood as an influential figure in the history of American letters. Here Goodman explores his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, his stint as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and his emergence as America's most respected author. Not only did he help forge standards in modern American literature with other greats such as his close friend Mark Twain and...
Author
Series
University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers volume no. 63
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Language
English
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"Johnson examines the worth of liberal democracy and the question of cultural development by looking at novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. Using the fictions to explore the richness of everyday life, he offers new insight into the relationship between the state and the individual"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Comparative study of Henry James's and William Dean Howells's literary criticism. Examines the interrelationship between the men, emphasizing their aesthetic concerns and attitudes toward the market and audience, and their beliefs concerning the moral value of fiction and the United States as a literary subject, and writings about each other"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Studies on themes and motifs in literature volume 105
Publisher
Peter Lang
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors' private lives, Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction....