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There are 16 critical essays on William Dean Howells.
Critical Essays on William Dean Howells
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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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Critical Essay by George R. Uba
6,358 words, approx. 21 pages
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.
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Critical Essay by Robert F. Marler Jr.
4,698 words, approx. 16 pages
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essay, Marler cites "A Dream" as Howells's first successful attempt at realistic fiction and relates it to his unpublished novel Geoffrey Winter.
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Critical Essay by Charles L. Crow
4,562 words, approx. 15 pages
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."
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Arthur Boardman
4,243 words, approx. 14 pages
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 and lower classes, associating upper class sex with "ideal love" and lower class sex with animalism.
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Critical Essay by Edward J. Piacentino
3,904 words, approx. 13 pages
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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Critical Essay by William J. Free
3,539 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Free determines the influence of Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy of pragmatic ethics on the short story "Editha."
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Critical Essay by John B. Humma
2,937 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Humma deems "Editha" as "an allegorical fable of American moral degeneration."
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Critical Essay by Charles Feigenoff
2,922 words, approx. 10 pages
In the following essay, Feigenoff underscores the psychological nature of Howells's ghost story, "His Apparition."
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Critical Essay by Carl W. Engelhart
2,746 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Engelhart views "Editha" in light of the changing landscape of nineteenth-century literature,
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Critical Essay by Philip Furia
2,558 words, approx. 9 pages
In the following essay, Furia provides an interpretation of the protagonist's motives in "Editha."
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