Abeln William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-87662-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Major Literary Authors

Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. This book works against decades of unfavorable comparisons with these literary giants. 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. A close look at his late works gives us a richer understanding of this powerful moment of transition in American literature, a moment when Howells and his venerable friends were inspiring and anointing a new generation of writers and taking a long, hard look at their own legacies and contributions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abeln, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

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

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Abeln received his Ph.D. American and Comparative Literature from Washington University in 2000.