Achievement of William Dean Howells / / Kermit Vanderbilt.
Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings of the American mind in an ambivalent and transitional society. By this interpretation he introduces a new and imaginative approach to the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1968 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Introduction: Premises and Method
- One. The Undiscovered Country (1880). Howells' Version of American Pastoral
- Two. A Modern Instance (1881-1882). Freedom and Fate in Modern America
- Three. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1884-1885). The Crisis of Wealth in the Gilded Age
- Four. A Hazard of New Fortunes (1889-1890). Art and Humanity in the American Metropolis
- Summary and Aftermath
- Bibliographical Comment
- Index