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William Dean Howells in Transition: Realism, Regionalism, and the Search for an American Aesthetic.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	William Dean Howells in Transition: Realism, Regionalism, and the Search for an American Aesthetic./
Author:	Thomas, Laura M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	156 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-04A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28092062
ISBN:	9798678110060

William Dean Howells in Transition: Realism, Regionalism, and the Search for an American Aesthetic.
Thomas, Laura M.

William Dean Howells in Transition: Realism, Regionalism, and the Search for an American Aesthetic. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 156 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Tulsa, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was one of the most influential authors and critics of nineteenth-century American literature. In his life he observed the rise and influence of eminent Romantic writers and critics hailing from Boston, and in 1860 became part of the Boston literary circle, soon taking on the prestigious role of the Atlantic editor. Howells was now ostensibly ensconced in the American genteel literary tradition. However, in the early 1880s Howells declared that a "new school" of writing was developing, with himself as arbiter of the new realist aesthetic which would push aside the romantic, idealistic writing of the past. The new aesthetic informed interpretations of truth, beauty, art, and "the real" that were antithetical to the romantic ideas of these concepts. Thus, the "new school" generated both positive and negative criticism, inciting what was known as "the realism war." While much of this conflict was a result of what many viewed as a replacement of the genteel, "old-school" literary methods, a considerable amount resulted from Howells's ambiguous and contradictory position regarding the realist aesthetic. Howells was stepping over the genteel boundary, which would situate him in a liminal place between genteel and modern literary approaches.Much recent scholarship overlooks Howells's intellectual and ideological idiosyncrasies which precipitate his decidedly ambiguous and contradictory literary philosophy. Howellsian aesthetics of truth, beauty, and "the real," views on regional dialect, and theories on capitalism, socialism, and inequality are all conspicuously affected by ambiguities and ambivalence. The objective of this dissertation is to revitalize interest not only in Howells as a distinguished man of letters, but in his cultural, social, and literary endeavors that were often disrupted by contradictions.

ISBN: 9798678110060Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
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American aesthetic

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