Conscience And Purpose - Fiction And Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, And

Informationen zum Autor Paul R. Petrie is Associate Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University where he has taught American Literature since 1998. Klappentext Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others. Zusammenfassung In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's! WD Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. The author explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers - Charles W Chesnutt! Sarah Orne Jewett! and Willa Cather.

Product details

• Authors: Paul R Petrie, Paul R. Petrie
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2005
• EAN: 9780817314842
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1484-2
• No. of pages: 234
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism; Amer Lit Realism & Naturalism; Studies in American Literary R; American Literary Realism and
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies