Dancing in Chains : : The Youth of William Dean Howells / / Rodney D. Olsen.
"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 intert...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1991] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 1991 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The American Social Experience ;
15 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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