Dancing in Chains : the Youth of William Dean Howells.

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"Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane, that psychic and intellectual history are intert...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Olsen, Rodney D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 1991.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920 > Childhood and youth.
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920.
1783-1899
Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Critics > United States > Biography.
Romanciers américains > 19e siècle > Biographies.
Critiques > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Childhood and youth of a person
Critics.
Manners and customs.
Novelists, American.
United States > Social life and customs > 1783-1865.
Ohio > Social life and customs.
États-Unis > Mœurs et coutumes > 1783-1865.
Ohio > Mœurs et coutumes.
Ohio.
United States.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Childhood; CHAPTER 1 A Selfish Ideal of Glory; CHAPTER 2 A Kind of Double Life; PART II Youth; CHAPTER 3 An Instance of Nervous Prostration; CHAPTER 4 The Umbrella Man; CHAPTER 5 Striving away from Home; CHAPTER 6 Woman's Sphere; CHAPTER 7 The Laying On of Hands; CHAPTER 8 The Province of Reason; CHAPTER 9 Desperate Leisure; PART III Later Life and the Return to Youth; CHAPTER 10 Bound to the Highest and the Lowest; Epilogue; Notes; Attributions, Permissions, and Notes for Illustrations; Index.

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