William Dean Howells : a writer's life

William Dean Howells : a writer's life / Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson.

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 biograph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goodman, Susan, 1951-
Other Authors: Dawson, Carl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Subjects:
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920.
Howells, William Dean, > 1837-1920
1800-1899
Novelists, American > 19th century > Biography.
Critics > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Critics
Novelists, American
United States
Biographies
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of Howells' life and work
  • Parallel lives
  • Warring ambitions, 1851/1859
  • Years of decision, 1859/1861
  • Consul at Venice, 1861/1865
  • Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867
  • Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871
  • His Mark Twain, from 1869
  • Fictional lives, 1871/1878
  • From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882
  • In England and Italy, 1882/1883
  • The man of business, 1883/1886
  • Heartache and horror, 1886/1890
  • Words and deeds, 1890/1894
  • Peripatetic, 1895/1899
  • Kittery Point, 1900/1905
  • Greater losses, 1906/1910
  • Reconsiderations, 1911/1917
  • Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.

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