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MOTHERS AND SONS IN THE FICTION OF MARK TWAIN, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, AND HENRY JAMES.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	MOTHERS AND SONS IN THE FICTION OF MARK TWAIN, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, AND HENRY JAMES./
作者:	COWARD, NANCY POTTS.
面頁冊數:	341 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: A, page: 1727.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International47-05A.
標題:	American literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8618331

MOTHERS AND SONS IN THE FICTION OF MARK TWAIN, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, AND HENRY JAMES.
COWARD, NANCY POTTS.

MOTHERS AND SONS IN THE FICTION OF MARK TWAIN, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, AND HENRY JAMES. - 341 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-05, Section: A, page: 1727.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986.

Drawing on a study by cultural historian Mary P. Ryan, The Empire of the Mother: American Writing about Domesticity, 1830-1860, I have proposed the theory that as children Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James were strongly influenced by the cult of domesticity, which left its marks on their fiction. In the United States from 1830 to 1850, patriarchal power gave way to the matriarchy, marked especially by the strong bond between mother and son. As his mother's favorite child, each of the three developed a deep dependence on her, matched with a corresponding need to escape her domination. The internal conflict accounts for her importance in their writings.Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

MOTHERS AND SONS IN THE FICTION OF MARK TWAIN, WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, AND HENRY JAMES.
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520 $a A comparison of their biographies and their fiction indicates that they gave to fictional mothers characteristics of their own mothers, that the portrayals did not necessarily correspond to those in non-fictional material, and that sometimes they revealed traits in fictional mothers impossible for them to recognize or acknowledge in their own mothers. Mark Twain dichotomized Jane Clemens into the eccentric aunt and the lofty heroine. Only Roxy in Puddn'head Wilson approached the complexity of his own mother. Having first avoided writing of Mary Dean Howells, Howells later favorably contrasted her as the "country mother" with the "city wife" and finally turned to childhood reminiscences of her. Having begun by attributing Mary James's favorable traits to American mothers and her undesirable ones to British mothers, in The Ambassadors James gave Mrs. Newsome characteristics very close to those of Mrs. James. Through this novel he seems to have come to terms with his ambivalence toward his mother in a way Mark Twain and Howells never succeeded in doing.
520 $a Their emphasis on mothers effected both their theories of realism and themes in their fiction. Without denigrating the significance of the post-Civil War period on the development of the three most important realists of late nineteenth-century America, I suggest their responses to it were conditioned by the tremendous emphasis on maternity that identified the cult of domesticity. Recognition of this factor gives their works new dimension for the reader.
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