Travel in the life and writings of William Dean Howells

My approach to the problem of American travel in the nineteenth century was through the periodicals. In Harper's Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Monthly (later the Century), Putnam's Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and Scribner's Magazine, I found a wealth of travel sketches, articles on travelling in general, and reviews of travel books. It seemed then best to limit the study to one representative traveller of the particular time I wanted to study, the post-Civil War 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, attempts to show what effect travel, both in America and Europe, had upon the life and writings of William Dean Howells

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctof of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Texas at Austin

Year dc:date.issued

1946

Author dc:creator

• Stiles, Marion Lumpkins, 1909-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Not available

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Identifier URI

http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/5304

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/78215