LEADER 04202nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910820277403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-93024-X 010 $a9786612357206 010 $a1-282-35720-4 010 $a1-59875-549-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520930247 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030724 035 $a(EBL)231933 035 $a(OCoLC)475938436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000272086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11253792 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312500 035 $a(PQKB)11305572 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC231933 035 $a(DE-B1597)520287 035 $a(OCoLC)1096478711 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520930247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL231933 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10079947 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235720 035 $a(OCoLC)60408002 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030724 100 $a20041109d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Dean Howells $ea writer's life /$fSusan Goodman and Carl Dawson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (580 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23896-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChronology 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. 330 $aPossibly 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. 606 $aNovelists, American$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aCritics$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aNovelists, American 615 0$aCritics 676 $a813/.4 676 $aB 700 $aGoodman$b Susan$f1951-$01636621 701 $aDawson$b Carl$0185163 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820277403321 996 $aWilliam Dean Howells$93977977 997 $aUNINA