Studies in American Fiction, September 22nd, 1997
Writer and liberal William Dean Howells is honored not because his philosophy was an intellectual exception in the literary world, but because critics now choose to honor people who typify the historical moment in which they lived. Howells is most known for acting as a mediator between moral man and immoral society. In his seventy-eighth year, William Dean Howells wrote Henry James, "I am a comparatively dead cult with my statues cut down and the grass growing over me in the pale moonlight."(1) When he made that typically accurate, typically ironic self-appraisal, literary modernism was on th...
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