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Conscience and purpose：fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather

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Main Authors: Petrie Paul R 1964-
Published: University of Alabama Press,
Publisher Address: Tuscaloosa
Publication Dates: c2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Subjects:
Chesnutt > Charles W > 1858-1932
Howells > William Dean > 1837-1920
Jewett > Sarah Orne > 1849-1909
Cather > Willa > 1873-1947
Chesnutt > Charles Waddell > 1858-1932
Conscience in literature
Ethics in literature
Literature and society > United States
American fiction > History and criticism
Social ethics in literature
Roman américain > Histoire et critique
Morale dans la littérature
Littérature et société > États-Unis
Morale sociale dans la littérature
Conscience dans la littérature
Carrier Form: xvii, 234 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780817314842 (hdbk. : alk. paper)
0817314849
Index Number: I712
CLC: I712.065
I712.074
Call Number: I712.074/P495
Contents: Donaiton.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.
W.D. Howells's literary antitheory : toward a social-ethical aesthetic in the Editor's study -- What is to be done? : Howells's social-ethical fiction -- "Unwritable things" : Sarah Orne Jewett's dual aesthetic in Deephaven and The country of the pointed firs -- Charles W. Chesnutt and the limits of literary mediation -- Willa Cather and the anti-realist uses of social reference -- Implications.

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