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.

The Great Succession
The Great Succession

Author: Robert Emmet Long

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0822976242

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The first book devoted to the literary relationship between Henry James and his American predecessor, Nathaniel Hwthorne. Robert Emmet Long demonstrates James' transformation of Hawthorne's romantic forms into realism, as one of the significant features of James' early career. Long shows that Hawthorne provided James ith a native tradition having its own conceptions of American psychological experience.

The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature
The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature

Author: Jack Salzman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-08-29

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521307031

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The Cambridge Handbook of American Literature offers a compact and accessible guide to the major landmarks of American literature.