Letters, Fictions, Lives: - Hemry James and Williams Dean Howells

Zusatztext The complex and shifting economic and literary co-ordinates of the 151 letters that comprise Michael Anesko's magnificent edition of the Howells-James correspondence make fascinating reading ... Anesko traces with impeccable scholarship (background essays! published materials by one on the other! annotations and textual notes) an unusual but enduring epistolary relationship. Klappentext This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. Of the 151 letters included in this volume -- most of the extant correspondence between the two men -- only half have been printed elsewhere. All items previously unpublished are letters by James. The selection represents each writer's most significant criticism of the other, providing a valuable tool for historically informed comprehension and appreciation of both men's work. Zusammenfassung This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. The 151 letters included represent each writer's most significant criticism of the other.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Anesko, W.D. Howells, H James, Henry Jr. James
• Assisted by: Anesko Michael (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1997
• EAN: 9780195061192
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506119-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Diaries, letters & journals, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form