Author: William Dean Howells
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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Life in Letters of William Dean Howells
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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William Dean Howells
Author: Susan Goodman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093024X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the American artistic ethos. William Dean Howells traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly. It looks at his writing, which included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism. Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain called him, "the boss" of literary critics—his support almost single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett. Showcasing many noteworthy personalities—Henry James, Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others—William Dean Howells portrays a man who stood at the center of American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052093024X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the American artistic ethos. William Dean Howells traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly. It looks at his writing, which included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism. Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain called him, "the boss" of literary critics—his support almost single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett. Showcasing many noteworthy personalities—Henry James, Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others—William Dean Howells portrays a man who stood at the center of American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Life in Letters of William Dean Howells
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404753778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781404753778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Life in Letters of William Dean Howells
Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Life and Letters of William Dean Howells
Author: Mildred Howells
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ISBN: 9780781253772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
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ISBN: 9780781253772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Life and Letters of William Dean Howells
Author: William Dean Howells
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ISBN: 9780403017690
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Languages : en
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ISBN: 9780403017690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Life in Letters of William Dean Howells. Edited by Mildred Howells, Etc. [With a Bibliography and with Portraits.].
Author: William Dean HOWELLS
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Life in letters of William Dean Howells. Ed. by Mildred Howells. Illustrated
Author: William Dean Howells
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Languages : de
Pages : 399
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Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 399
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Life in Letters of William Dean Howells /cedited by Mildred Howells
Author: William Dean Howells
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Letters, Fictions, Lives
Author: Michael Anesko
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197724897
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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-fertilisation. It includes 151 letters.
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ISBN: 9780197724897
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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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-fertilisation. It includes 151 letters.