{"product_id":"on-howells-9780822313007","title":"On Howells","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The journal \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the ‘standard view’ or ‘the final word’ on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library.\" - Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Introduction vii\u003cbr\u003e The Literary Background of Howells's Social Criticism (1942) \/ George Arms 1\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Howells and \"The Smiling Aspects of Life\" (1945) \/ Edwin H. Cady 18\u003cbr\u003e Materials and Form in Howells's First Novels (1947) \/ William M. Gibson 21\u003cbr\u003e The Equalitarian Principle in the Fiction of William Dean Howells (1952) \/ William F. Ekstrom 30\u003cbr\u003e Howells, The Atlantic Monthly, and Republicanism (1952) \/ Louis J. Budd 41\u003cbr\u003e William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and The Story of a Country Town (1958) \/ James B. Stronks 59\u003cbr\u003e The Ethical Unity of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1960) \/ Donald Pizer 65\u003cbr\u003e Point of View in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1962) \/ William McMurray 71\u003cbr\u003e Marcia Gaylord's Electra Complex: A Footnote to Sex in Howells (1962) \/ Kermit Vanderbilt 79\u003cbr\u003e The Function of Setting in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1963) \/ Mary S. Sulivan 89\u003cbr\u003e The Architecture of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1966) \/ G. Thomas Tanselle 104\u003cbr\u003e Howells and Ade (1966) \/ Jack Brenner 132\u003cbr\u003e The Dark Side of Their Wedding Journey (1969) \/ Marion W. Cumpiano 142\u003cbr\u003e William Dean Howells. George William Curtis, and the \"Haymarker Affair\" (1969) \/ Clara and Rudolf Kirk 157\u003cbr\u003e Savagery and Civilization: The Moral Dimensions of Howells's A Boy's Town (1969) \/ Tom H. Towers 169\u003cbr\u003e Transformations: The Blithedale Romance to Howells and James (1976) \/ Robert Emmet Long 180\u003cbr\u003e The Wilderness Within: Howells's A Boy's Town (1976) \/ Thomas Cooley 200\u003cbr\u003e Invalids and Actresses: Howells's Duplex Imagery for American Women (1976) \/ Sidney H. Bremer 216\u003cbr\u003e William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chestnut: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1976) \/ William L. Andrews 232\u003cbr\u003e Howells's Oresteia: The Union of Theme and Structure in The Shadow of a Dream (1977) \/ Barbara L. Parker 245\u003cbr\u003e An Interoceanic Episode: THe Lady of thte Aroostook (1977) \/ John W. Crowley 258\u003cbr\u003e Index 270","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406013079895,"sku":"9780822313007","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-howells-9780822313007","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}