Dancing in Chains : : The Youth of William Dean Howells / / Rodney D. Olsen.
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Olsen, Rodney D., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dancing in Chains : The Youth of William Dean Howells / Rodney D. Olsen. New York, NY : New York University Press, [1991] ©1991 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The American Social Experience ; 15 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Childhood -- CHAPTER 1. A Selfish Ideal of Glory -- CHAPTER 2. A Kind of Double Life -- Part II. Youth -- CHAPTER 3. An Instance of Nervous Prostration -- CHAPTER 4. The Umbrella Man -- CHAPTER 5. Striving away from Home -- CHAPTER 6. Woman's Sphere -- CHAPTER 7. The Laying On of Hands -- CHAPTER 8. The Province of Reason -- CHAPTER 9. Desperate Leisure -- PART III. Later Life and the Return to Youth -- CHAPTER 10. Bound to the Highest and the Lowest -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Attributions, Permissions, and Notes for Illustrations -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star "Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane, that psychic and intellectual history are intertwined. He presents a wonderful nuanced picture of Howells."-Jackson Lears,Rutgers University In this insightful study of the childhood and youth of William Dean Howells, Dancing in Chains demonstrates how the turbulent social and cultural changes of the early nineteenth century shaped the young Howells's emotional and intellectual life. His early diaries, letters, poetry, fiction, and newspaper columns are used to illustrate Olsen's argument, which also in turn throws light on the dominant tensions in antebellum America. Accepting the emergent middle-class ethos of civilized morality, with its new conceptions of child rearing and gender spheres, Howells's parents urged him to achieve self-control and individual success while also teaching him to seek the good of others rather than his own glory. For Howells the conflicts coalesced at the time of his leaving home, an increasing common rite of passage for antebellum youth. Trying to affirm his sense of literary vocation, he tested his aspirations against the family's Swedenborgian religious convictions and the antislavery commitments of his village while experimenting with competing literary ideologies in the process of meeting the demands of the new mass reading audience. For Howells the resulting tensions eased toward the end of his youth but reappeared in his more mature works of fiction and social criticism in later years. Portraying the ordeal of coming of age during a momentous period of American history, Dancing in Chains is a fascinating study with a broad appeal to general readers as well as scholars. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Critics United States Biography. Novelists, American 19th century Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110716924 print 9780814761724 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814762639.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814762639 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814762639/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Childhood -- CHAPTER 1. A Selfish Ideal of Glory -- CHAPTER 2. A Kind of Double Life -- Part II. Youth -- CHAPTER 3. An Instance of Nervous Prostration -- CHAPTER 4. The Umbrella Man -- CHAPTER 5. Striving away from Home -- CHAPTER 6. Woman's Sphere -- CHAPTER 7. The Laying On of Hands -- CHAPTER 8. The Province of Reason -- CHAPTER 9. Desperate Leisure -- PART III. Later Life and the Return to Youth -- CHAPTER 10. Bound to the Highest and the Lowest -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Attributions, Permissions, and Notes for Illustrations -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Childhood -- CHAPTER 1. A Selfish Ideal of Glory -- CHAPTER 2. A Kind of Double Life -- Part II. Youth -- CHAPTER 3. An Instance of Nervous Prostration -- CHAPTER 4. The Umbrella Man -- CHAPTER 5. Striving away from Home -- CHAPTER 6. Woman's Sphere -- CHAPTER 7. The Laying On of Hands -- CHAPTER 8. The Province of Reason -- CHAPTER 9. Desperate Leisure -- PART III. Later Life and the Return to Youth -- CHAPTER 10. Bound to the Highest and the Lowest -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Attributions, Permissions, and Notes for Illustrations -- Index |
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