Conscience and purpose:fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
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University of Alabama Press,
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Publisher Address: | Tuscaloosa |
Publication Dates: | c2005. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism |
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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. |