The life of the English humanist and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) exemplifies the political and spiritual upheaval of the Reformation. The author of "Utopia," he was beheaded for opposing the...
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Sir Thomas More is--in the phrase associated with him since the early sixteenth century--a man for all seasons. World renowned as the author of Utopia (1516), he wrote humanist, polemical, and spiritu...
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Sir Thomas More's place in the history of rhetoric and logic is secure for two reasons. First, he enacted the "new learning" of the studia humanitatis, translating and transforming ancient literature ...
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Biography EssayWilliam 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 cen...
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William Dean Howells (1837-1920), American writer and editor, was an influential critic and an important novelist of the late 19th century.William Dean Howells's career spanned a period of radical cha...
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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. ...
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William Dean Howells was known from the 1880s to his death in 1920 as the preeminent literary realist in America. Though Howells was a part of the international realism movement, his was essentially ...
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The son of a Welsh father, William Cooper Howells, and an Irish-German mother, Mary Dean Howells, William Dean Howells was born in Martin's Ferry in Belmont County, Ohio, the second of eight children....
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William Dean Howells , on his odyssey from self-educated printer's devil to critic, novelist, and preeminent arbiter of American letters, passed through the offices of the Atlantic Monthly during the ...
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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...
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In the following excerpt, Cady examines representations of violence in the fiction of William Dean Howells and Stephen Crane.
The currently popular assertion that violence is somehow distinctively or ...
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In the following essay, Free determines the influence of Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy of pragmatic ethics on the short story "Editha."
William Dean Howells' short st...
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In the following essay, Piacentino discusses the use of arm imagery in "Editha," and discovers parallels between Howells's story and George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man....
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In the following excerpt, Crowley offers an overview of Howells's psychic stories.
In August 1900 Howells wrote to Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century, about two stories, both of which...
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In the following essay, Berkove assesses Mark Twain's influence on Howells's work.
There is little doubt today about the nature and extent of the influence of William Dean Howells on Mar...
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In the following essay, Bardon surveys critical reaction to Howells's short fiction and discusses the defining characteristics of his sketches and short stories.)
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The achievement of William D...
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In the following essay, Marler cites "A Dream" as Howells's first successful attempt at realistic fiction and relates it to his unpublished novel Geoffrey Winter.
Buried beneath W...
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In the following essay, Engelhart views "Editha" in light of the changing landscape of nineteenth-century literature,
Readers of American literature who are familiar with the literary sc...
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In the following essay, Crow praises the stylistic innovation in Howells's stories, in particular the stream-of-conscious narrative employed in "A Case of Metaphantasmia."
Late in...
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In the following essay, Crowley and Crow explore psychological, psychic, and autobiographical themes in Howells's "A Sleep and a Forgetting."
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One tenet of W. D. Howells' ...
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In the following essay, Humma deems "Editha" as "an allegorical fable of American moral degeneration."
William Dean Howells's short story "Editha" has ...
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In the following essay, Furia provides an interpretation of the protagonist's motives in "Editha."
Like the anti-war poems of William Vaughan Moody, William Dean Howells's ...
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In the following essay, Bellamy examines the roles of idealism and rhetoric in Howells's "Editha."
William Dean Howells's belief in the pernicious influence of idealism is ...
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In the following essay, Feigenoff underscores the psychological nature of Howells's ghost story, "His Apparition."
In "His Apparition" William Dean Howells shrewdly ...
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In the following essay, Boardman argues that, despite his well-known dedication to theoretical and artistic Realism, William Dean Howells held vastly different opinions about sexuality among the upper...
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In the following essay, Uba explores the allegorical nature of William Dean Howells's utopian romances, A Traveller from Altruria and Through the Eye of the Needle.
The utopian novels A Travell...
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ALFRED KAZIN: A BIOGRAPHY By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35
With the death of Alfred Kazin in 1998 at the age of 83, the kind of high-end literary journalism that he’d ...
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Critical Essay by Edwin H. Cady
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