The complete online text of Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship 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...

RAILTON, STEPHEN, (Princeton, NJ: University Press, 1991) 241 pp. $35.00 cloth; $12.95 paper. William Charvatt's suggestion, in 1949, that the antebellum "general reader"'s influence on classic American writers "can be documented conclusively from internal evidence in [their] work," serves as epigraph and...

Nathaniel Lewis. Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003. 297 pp. In one swift stroke, Nathaniel Lewis attempts to turn Western American literature and its critical traditions on their heads. With Western American literary scholars struggling to...