New Essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham

Book Overview

The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as social force as well as a literary form. In his introduction Donald Pease recounts the fall and rise of the novel's value in literary history, outlines the various critical responses to Silas Lapham, and then restores Silas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521378982
• ISBN13: 9780521378987
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"