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Book The Road to Realism

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  • Author : Edwin Harrison Cady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Road to Realism written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Realism

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  • Author : Edwin Harrison Cady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book The Road to Realism written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William Dean Howells

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  • Author : Edwin Harrison Cady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book William Dean Howells written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road to Realism

Download or read book The Road to Realism written by Edwin H. Cady and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume in a two-volume biography of William Dean Howells is the story of a series of intermingling lines of growth: the growth of admirable personality, the growth of a great career in letters, the growth of a penetrating mind, of a major command of literary art, of an influence of predominant importance to an age and to its legacy to the present. Because the importance of Howells' life lies in his novels, close attention is paid to his principal writings.

Book The Realist at War

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  • Author : Edwin Harrison Cady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The Realist at War written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Complete Works of William Dean Howells

Download or read book Complete Works of William Dean Howells written by William Dean Howells and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 4017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.

Book William Dean Howells

Download or read book William Dean Howells written by Susan Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the American artistic ethos. William Dean Howells traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly. It looks at his writing, which included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism. Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain called him, "the boss" of literary critics—his support almost single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett. Showcasing many noteworthy personalities—Henry James, Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others—William Dean Howells portrays a man who stood at the center of American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Book The Realist at War

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  • Author : Edwin Harrison Cady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781258214142
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Realist at War written by Edwin Harrison Cady and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Literary Realism  Critical Theory  and Intellectual Prestige  1880   1995

Download or read book American Literary Realism Critical Theory and Intellectual Prestige 1880 1995 written by Phillip Barrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige - that is, new ways of gaining cultural recognition as unusually intelligent, sensitive or even wise. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasises the differences between literary realist modes of intellectual and cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences. In doing so, he greatly refines our understanding of the complex relationship between realist writing and masculinity. Barrish further argues that understanding the dynamics of intellectual status in realist literature provides new analytic purchase on intellectual prestige in recent critical theory. Here he focuses on such figures as Lionel Trilling, Paul de Man, John Guillory and Judith Butler.

Book John Hay  Friend of Giants

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  • Author : Philip McFarland
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2017-03-15
  • ISBN : 1442222832
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book John Hay Friend of Giants written by Philip McFarland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, perhaps, only those enmeshed in 19th-century American history know his name; but when John Hay died in 1905, he was one of the most famous men in the world. And one of the most highly regarded. Abraham Lincoln’s private secretary during the Civil War, thereafter as a popular poet, novelist, newspaper editor, highly esteemed historian and biographer, diplomat, businessman, and secretary of state until his death, Hay enjoyed remarkable success in public and private life. In John Hay, Friend of Giants, Philip McFarland presents both the intimate story of Hay’s relationship with four prominent figures of his age and an insightful history of the United States from the 1850s to the turn of the century. Hay’s life and extraordinary friendships provide a window into the politics, literature, society, and diplomacy of this remarkable era of American expansion.

Book The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism

Download or read book The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism written by Mary K. Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new “realisms” in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature “realistic”? And if it is, then what does “realism” mean anymore? Examining literature by dozens of writers, and over a century of theory and criticism about realism, The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism sorts through the current critical confusion to illustrate how our ideas about what is real and how best to depict it have changed dramatically, especially in recent years. Along the way, Mary K. Holland guides the reader on a lively tour through the landscape of contemporary literary studies--taking in metafiction, ideology, posthumanism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism--with forays into quantum mechanics, new materialism, and Buddhism as well, to give us entirely new ways of viewing how humans use language to make sense of--and to make--the world.

Book Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature

Download or read book Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature written by Sam B Girgus and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Language  Race  and Social Class in Howells s America

Download or read book Language Race and Social Class in Howells s America written by Elsa Nettels and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other American novelist has written so fully about language—grammar, diction, the place of colloquialism and dialect in literary English, the relation between speech and writing—as William Dean Howells. The power of language to create social, political, and racial identity was of central concern to Americans in the nineteenth century, and the implications of language in this regard are strikingly revealed in the writings of Howells, the most influential critic and editor of his age. In this first full-scale treatment of Howells as a writer about language, Elsa Nettels offers a historical overview of the social and political implications of language in post-Civil War America. Chapters on controversies about linguistic authority, American versus British English, literary dialect, and language and race relate Howells's ideas at every point to those of his contemporaries—from writers such as Henry James, Mark Twain, and James Russell Lowell to political figures such as Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John Hay. The first book to analyze in depth and detail the language of Howells's characters in more than a dozen novels, this path-breaking sociolinguistic approach to Howells's fiction exposes the fundamental contradiction in his realism and in the America he portrayed. By representing the speech that separates standard from nonstandard speakers, Howells's novels—which champion the democratic ideals of equity and unity—also demonstrate the power of language to reinforce barriers of race and class in American society. Drawing on unpublished letters of Howells, James, Lowell, and others and on scores of articles in nineteenth-century periodicals, this work of literary criticism and cultural history reaches beyond the work of one writer to address questions of enduring importance to all students of American literature and society.

Book New Essays on Winesburg  Ohio

Download or read book New Essays on Winesburg Ohio written by John W. Crowley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book James the Critic

Download or read book James the Critic written by Vivien Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1985-08-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All the Great Prizes

Download or read book All the Great Prizes written by John Taliaferro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of Lincoln's private secretary and the Secretary of State under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt traces his constant presence at Lincoln's side and his role in major historical events for more than half a century.

Book Delicate Pursuit

Download or read book Delicate Pursuit written by Jessica Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delicate Pursuit explores the way in which Henry James and Edith Wharton treated subject matter that was considered controversial by American publishers at the turn of the century. In their treatment of risque topics, James and Wharton pursued discretion, the key concept of this study, in order to avoid censorship. Discretion marks not only the author's relationship to their subject matter but also the behavior of the characters in the fiction. This study takes into particular account the influence of the French literary tradition on these two authors. At the crossroads of the new freedom of expression opened up by French realism and the persisting puritanical standards of their American audiences, James and Wharton sough safe ways to address adult sexuality, and the French theme of adulterous love in particular.