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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... thought he had accurately described. Entering into conversation with a fellow traveler, he sketched the young man as he would a character in a novel, every detail fixed in his memory and spelled out in letters home. 1. 1. 1 Parallel Lives.
... thought he had accurately described. Entering into conversation with a fellow traveler, he sketched the young man as he would a character in a novel, every detail fixed in his memory and spelled out in letters home. 1. 1. 1 Parallel Lives.
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... Thought”) as its official publication, William took a four-month break from the Intelligencer. When he found New Churchers no improvement on previous readers, who preferred scandal to political lectures and exegeses of religious texts ...
... Thought”) as its official publication, William took a four-month break from the Intelligencer. When he found New Churchers no improvement on previous readers, who preferred scandal to political lectures and exegeses of religious texts ...
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... thought to make money with a play of his own—an extravaganza about the War of 1812 based on the military exploits of his hero, William Henry Harrison. But neither the play, which folded after one performance, nor any other strategy ...
... thought to make money with a play of his own—an extravaganza about the War of 1812 based on the military exploits of his hero, William Henry Harrison. But neither the play, which folded after one performance, nor any other strategy ...
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... thought he might be happier in Jefferson than Boston (he was then liv- ing in New York). His youthful sufferings too distant to torment him, he might return with a new equanimity.24 Memory both teased and played him false. He could ...
... thought he might be happier in Jefferson than Boston (he was then liv- ing in New York). His youthful sufferings too distant to torment him, he might return with a new equanimity.24 Memory both teased and played him false. He could ...
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... thought he would die from tuberculosis , but he had “ called forth " the will and spite to prove Joseph wrong.32 Howells understood the moral— and the appeal — of his father's story without being able to apply it . Unlike his younger ...
... thought he would die from tuberculosis , but he had “ called forth " the will and spite to prove Joseph wrong.32 Howells understood the moral— and the appeal — of his father's story without being able to apply it . Unlike his younger ...
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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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