The Dean of American Letters: The Late Career of William Dean Howells

by John William Crowley

The final volume of John W. Crowley's trilogy of works on William Dean Howells, this book focuses on the much neglected last decades of the author's life. It was during this period that Howells, already well known as a writer, became a kind of cultural icon, the so-called "Dean of American Letters." Beginning with A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890), Crowley sets Howells's later life and work into a personal as well as a public context. He traces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558492402
• ISBN13: 9781558492400
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"