Searching for "Common Ground": Class, Sympathy, and Perspective in Howells' Social Fiction.
The author focuses on the social fiction and criticism of American author William Dean Howells, which the author claims reflect Howells' views of class differences. According to the author, Howells was sympathetic to the concept of democracy, although he was aware of his own social privilege. The au...
| Publicado en: | American Literary Realism Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 189 - 213 |
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University of Illinois Press
Spring2007
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| Sumario: | The author focuses on the social fiction and criticism of American author William Dean Howells, which the author claims reflect Howells' views of class differences. According to the author, Howells was sympathetic to the concept of democracy, although he was aware of his own social privilege. The author examines Howells' novels "A Hazard of New Fortunes," "The Minister's Charge: Or, the Apprenticeship of Lemuel Baker," and "The World of Chance," discussing the depiction of characters, and the issues of social class, sympathy, and realism in the novels. |
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