04239nam 2200673Ia 450 991045006370332120200520144314.00-520-93024-X97866123572061-282-35720-41-59875-549-810.1525/9780520930247(CKB)1000000000030724(EBL)231933(OCoLC)475938436(SSID)ssj0000272086(PQKBManifestationID)11253792(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272086(PQKBWorkID)10312500(PQKB)11305572(MiAaPQ)EBC231933(DE-B1597)520287(OCoLC)1096478711(DE-B1597)9780520930247(Au-PeEL)EBL231933(CaPaEBR)ebr10079947(CaONFJC)MIL235720(OCoLC)60408002(EXLCZ)99100000000003072420041109d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWilliam Dean Howells[electronic resource] a writer's life /Susan Goodman and Carl DawsonBerkeley University of California Pressc20051 online resource (580 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-23896-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chronology of Howells' life and work -- Parallel lives -- Warring ambitions, 1851/1859 -- Years of decision, 1859/1861 -- Consul at Venice, 1861/1865 -- Atlantic years, 1 : 1865/1867 -- Atlantic years, 2 : 1867/1871 -- His Mark Twain, from 1869 -- Fictional lives, 1871/1878 -- From Venice as far as Belmont, 1878/1882 -- In England and Italy, 1882/1883 -- The man of business, 1883/1886 -- Heartache and horror, 1886/1890 -- Words and deeds, 1890/1894 -- Peripatetic, 1895/1899 -- Kittery Point, 1900/1905 -- Greater losses, 1906/1910 -- Reconsiderations, 1911/1917 -- Eighty years and after, 1918/1920.Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in the realist tradition, a formative influence on many of America's finest writers, and an outspoken opponent of social injustice. This biography, the first comprehensive work on Howells in fifty years, enters the consciousness of the man and his times, revealing a complicated and painfully honest figure who came of age in an era of political corruption, industrial greed, and American imperialism. Written with verve and originality in a highly absorbing style, it brings alive for a new generation a literary and cultural pioneer who played a key role in creating the American artistic ethos. William Dean Howells traces the writer's life from his boyhood in Ohio before the Civil War, to his consularship in Italy under President Lincoln, to his rise as editor of Atlantic Monthly. It looks at his writing, which included novels, poems, plays, children's books, and criticism. Howells had many powerful friendships among the literati of his day; and here we find an especially rich examination of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain. Howells was, as Twain called him, "the boss" of literary critics-his support almost single-handedly made the careers of many writers, including African Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett. Showcasing many noteworthy personalities-Henry James, Edmund Gosse, H. G. Wells, Stephen Crane, Emily Dickinson, and many others-William Dean Howells portrays a man who stood at the center of American literature through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Novelists, American19th centuryBiographyCriticsUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Novelists, AmericanCritics813/.4BGoodman Susan1951-1048786Dawson Carl185163MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450063703321William Dean Howells2477292UNINA01669nam0 22003611i 450 UON0022648920231205103439.23022-7105-302-120030730d1995 |0itac50 bafreCA||||0 |||||Correspondance. 10.: octobre 1899-septembre 1902supplément, index généralÉmile Zolaéditée sous la direction de B.H. Bakkeréditeur associé Owen Morganconseiller littéraire Henri Mitterandéditeurs adjoints ... DorothyE. Speirs et John A. WalkerMontréalPresses de l'Université de Montréal ; ParisCNRSc1995647 p.24 cmEPISTOLOGRAFIA FRANCESESec. 19.UONC055644FICAMontréalUONL000242FRParisUONL002984846.8Epistolografia francese. 1848-189921ZOLAÉmileUONV119267377373BAKKERBarend HendrikUONV119268MITTERANDHenriUONV095278MORGANOwenUONV137119SPEIRSDorothy ElizabethUONV137117WALKERJohn A.UONV137118Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueUONV262150650Presses de l'Université de MontréalUONV265702650ITSOL20240220RICASIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOUONSIUON00226489SIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEOSI Francese O.C 53 j SI LO 63931 7 53 j Correspondance. 10.: octobre 1899-septembre 19021850429UNIOR