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William Dean Howells by Thomas More

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Biography

Name: William Dean Howells
Birth Date: 1837
Death Date: 1920
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, critic, editor

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Biography of William Dean Howells
18,467 words, approx. 62 pages
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...
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Biography of William Dean Howells
17,397 words, approx. 58 pages
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...
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Biography of William Dean Howells
8,190 words, approx. 27 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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William Dean Howells Information
1,323 words, approx. 4 pages
William Dean Howells (March 1 1837 – May 11 1920) was an American realist author and literary...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Score-Settling and Book Chat: A Great Critic, Sustained By His City
1/16/2008: 1,088 words, approx. 4 pages
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 devoted his life to in over a thousand book reviews,...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John W. Crowley and Charles L. Crow
6,758 words, approx. 23 pages
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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Critical Essay by Ruth Bardon
6,526 words, approx. 22 pages
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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Critical Essay by Edwin H. Cady
6,401 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following excerpt, Cady examines representations of violence in the fiction of William Dean Howells and Stephen Crane.
 


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William Dean Howells by Thomas More

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