William Dean Howells: A Writer’s LifeUniversity of California Press, 01/05/2005 - 545 páginas 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. |
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... once a diplomatic “boss,” a shrewd businessman, a political rad- ical, and a writer whose imagination changed the standards of American fiction. Howells delighted in a story told by the sculptor Augustus Saint- Gaudens, a personal ...
... once a diplomatic “boss,” a shrewd businessman, a political rad- ical, and a writer whose imagination changed the standards of American fiction. Howells delighted in a story told by the sculptor Augustus Saint- Gaudens, a personal ...
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... once wrote—of shedding a little light. We have reimag- ined Howells where he lived and worked, in places as distant as Venice, Italy, and Kittery Point, Maine, and in Boston and New York, the centers of his professional life. We talk ...
... once wrote—of shedding a little light. We have reimag- ined Howells where he lived and worked, in places as distant as Venice, Italy, and Kittery Point, Maine, and in Boston and New York, the centers of his professional life. We talk ...
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... once threw a rose to startle her , recalled the moment with words that might have been written by D. H. Lawrence . " When she looked around and saw me offering to run away , she whirled on me and made me suffer for her fright ...
... once threw a rose to startle her , recalled the moment with words that might have been written by D. H. Lawrence . " When she looked around and saw me offering to run away , she whirled on me and made me suffer for her fright ...
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... once lived as a boy. They stayed a few months, while William recov- ered from influenza and toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor. Still with- out income, they moved to Martinsville (later called Martins Ferry), on the Ohio River ...
... once lived as a boy. They stayed a few months, while William recov- ered from influenza and toyed with the idea of becoming a doctor. Still with- out income, they moved to Martinsville (later called Martins Ferry), on the Ohio River ...
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... once the “im- moral” Mexican-American War started in May 1846, he felt obliged to support American soldiers while protesting his country's policies. To fellow Whigs, William appeared at best indecisive, at worst a turncoat. Taylor, in ...
... once the “im- moral” Mexican-American War started in May 1846, he felt obliged to support American soldiers while protesting his country's policies. To fellow Whigs, William appeared at best indecisive, at worst a turncoat. Taylor, in ...
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3 Years of Decision 18591861 | 43 |
4 Consul at Venice 18611865 | 72 |
18651867 | 100 |
18671871 | 125 |
7 His Mark Twain from 1869 | 148 |
8 Fictional Lives 18711878 | 174 |
13 Words and Deeds 18901894 | 301 |
14 Peripatetic 18951899 | 329 |
15 Kittery Point 19001905 | 356 |
16 Greater Losses 19061910 | 381 |
17 Reconsiderations 19111917 | 405 |
18 Eighty Years and After 1918 1920 | 428 |
List of Abbreviations | 435 |
Notes | 437 |
9 From Venice as Far as Belmont 18781882 | 199 |
10 In England and Italy 18821883 | 222 |
11 The Man of Business 18831886 | 248 |
12 Heartache and Horror 18861890 | 275 |
Index | 499 |
Index of Howells Works | 517 |
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