April Hopes

April Hopes

Author: William Dean Howells

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780253307705

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April Hopes is HowellsÕ challenge to sentimentalism in American fiction in the late 1880Õs romantic illusion leads to potential tragedy. As an example of HowellsÕ realism and deft irony, April Hopes is unsurpassed.


Essays on Modern Novelists

Essays on Modern Novelists

Author: William Lyon Phelps

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-04

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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The title of this book says it all, for it is indeed a collection of essays on the life and works of some 19th-century authors. Notable individuals discussed in this book include Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and Rudyard Kipling.


Pragmatist Realism

Pragmatist Realism

Author: Sämi Ludwig

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780299176648

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Ludwig (English, U. of Berne, Switzerland) argues that the artistic quality of American realist texts, such as those written by Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James, is best appreciated by approaching them from a cognitive perspective rather than from a linguistic or formalistic one. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR