The complete online text of Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

READERS OF THE NEW LEADER over the past several decades would name fiction as one of its central concerns. But this was not always the case: When the NL switched from a newspaper to a magazine format in mid-1950, the books it discussed...

Carl Freedman. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, MA: Wesleyan University P, 2000. 228 pages. ISBN: (HB)0 8195 6398 6, (TPB) 8195 6399 4 By this time, several years after its initial publication, Carl Freedman's dense work on "classic" modern science fiction, what...