Achievement of William Dean Howells

Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vanderbilt, Kermit
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1968.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Howells, William Dean > 1837-1920
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920.
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920 > Criticism and interpretation.
Realism in literature.
Didactic fiction, American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Didactic fiction, American > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: premises and method
  • The undiscovered country (1880): Howell's version of American pastoral
  • A modern instance (1881-1882): freedom and fate in modern America
  • The rise of Silas Lapham (1884-1885): the crisis of wealth in the gilded age
  • A hazard of new fortunes (1889-1890): art and humanity in the American metropolis.

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