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William Dean Howells : a critical study
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William Dean Howells as a literary theorist
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William Dean Howells: The Ohio Years in His Novels
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Travel in the life and writings of William Dean Howells
… years, and the one outstanding in that era was William Dean Howells. He had written a number of travel books, he was a literary man of wide renown, and in his position as Dean of American Letters he had had various things to say about the place of travel in American literature. This study, then, …
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A dictionary of the characters in the novels of William Dean Howells
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1928.
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… Darwin's Origin of Species emboldened a young William Dean Howells to explore the possibility of a scientific foundation for a new literature combining close observations of the immediate environment with a method of interpreting these observations based on evolutionary science as Howells …
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Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An exercise in reading the interracial canon
Howells, Dickinson, Lewis: An Exercise in Reading the Interracial Canon has two purposes. First, it offers detailed readings of three American novels: An Imperative Duty by William Dean Howells (1891), What Answer? by Anna Dickinson (1868), and Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis (1947). These …
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“The most popular humorist who ever lived” : Mark Twain and the transformation of American culture
… to a national and international celebrity who William Dean Howells called “the most popular humorist who ever lived.” This dissertation considers “Mark Twain” not as the name of a literary author, but as a fictional creation who was narrator and implied author of both fictional and non-fiction …
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Slumming and the 19th century geographical imagination
… Osgood Bradbury, and canonical novelists like William Dean Howells, Stephen Crane and Frank Norris, reinforced middle-class and bourgeois conceptions of urban social space. The degrees to which existing social space was maintained, and the processes by which it was maintained, depended on the …
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The Novel of Business and the Business of the Novel: W.D. Howells' Examination of Prosperity Archetypes
This thesis examines William Dean Howells' two most notable novels of business, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), suggesting that the business of literature, in its dissemination of success myths and its ultimate internalization of these myths, was complicit in …
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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
… and early twentieth-century narrative (William Dean Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes, Henry James' The Spoils ofPoynton, and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth); how new spatial and temporal paradigms created by automotive technology affect the eyewitness (and a particular vision of …
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Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature
… Davis and Sentimental Literary Realism; 3) William Dean Howells as Writer and Critic of American Literary Realism; 4) Mark Twain and the Bible: “I See It Warn’t Nothing but a Dictionary”; 5) Harold Frederic and Realism: The Damnation of Religion; and 6) Conclusion.
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Henry James and "Coterie-Literature"
… thought with that of one of his contemporaries, William Dean Howells. Is it a reader’s fault if they do not understand James’s work? This question is related, as I argue in my second chapter, to the problem James faces in evaluating the intelligence and the ignorance of the hero of The American, …
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Sympathetic Observations: Widowhood, Spectatorship, and Sympathy in the Fiction of Henry James
… too participated in the same aesthetic agenda as William Dean Howells and George Eliot to evoke sympathy in their readers as a means of promoting class unity. In this thesis I show how James's use of widowed characters places him in the same sympathetic tradition as Howells and Eliot not by …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… literature by Page, Thomas Dixon, Jr., William Smith, and William Calhoun. Chapter Four focuses on the issue of passing and the ""tragic octoroon"" convention in Chesnutt's novel The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and in novels by William Dean Howells, Gertrude Atherton, and Albion …
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EVIDENCE OF ANXIETY: WOMEN'S AGENCY AND ENGAGEMENT LAW IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM, 1880-1935
… over marriage and family finances. The works of William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Anita Loos, Margaret Deland and others benefit from putting their texts alongside newspaper headlines and case studies from their era because breach of promise was often a covert force in those stories and only …
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Neighborhood novels in American literature
… rather than monumental, the novels of William Dean Howells, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and James Weldon Johnson also recognized that neighborhoods, defined by race and class, as well as geography, provided microcosms of culture central to what Henry James foresaw as "the dauntless fusions to …
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"Art for Truth's Sake" : James A. Herne as Social Critic and Literary Artist
… American Ibsen. Garland soon introduced Herne to William Dean Howells, and the two authors encouraged Herne in his quest for realism. The result was <em>Margaret Fleming, </em>a stark drama dealing with the problems of marital infidelity and the double standard. While not a financial success, it …
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
… influential critics and publishers, such as William Dean Howells, enjoyed and revered her “ free movement, unfettered by the limits of plot, and keeping only to the reality, which no other eye than hers has seen so subtly, so humorously, so touchingly” (Silverthorne 207) . I will analyze The …
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