William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Informationen zum Autor Paul Abeln received his Ph.D. American and Comparative Literature from Washington University in 2000. Klappentext First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Paul Abeln, Abeln Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2005
• EAN: 9780415970969
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97096-9
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism