William Dean Howells and the American Memory Crisis

by Lance Rubin

With social and political issues providing the foreground of literary studies over the past several years, William Dean Howells has re-emerged as a major author. Yet, among canonical American writers, Howells simultaneously attracts both significant attention and curious neglect. While studies devoted to his novels, The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Hazard of New Fortunes, are proliferating, the attention paid to his later writing, particularly his short...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160497544X
• ISBN13: 9781604975444
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"