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In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, WD Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. The author explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers - Charles W Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather.

Conscience and Purpose Fiction and Social

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817314842, 978-0817314842
      ISBN10: 0817314849
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction

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      Book Synopsis
      In a series of influential essays that appeared in Harper's, WD Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. The author explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers - Charles W Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather.

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