...Henry B. Wonham Abstract This essay explores the concept of liberal guilt in William Dean Howells’s fiction, focusing especially on his 1888 novel Annie Kilburn . Genealogies of liberal guilt rarely mention Howells, and yet no American writer has more painstakingly elaborated the embarrassing...

... texts ‘‘clearly emphasize readers’ own need to act responsibly’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

... texts ‘‘clearly emphasize readers’ own need to act responsibly’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

... texts ‘‘clearly emphasize readers’ own need to act responsibly’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her...

... texts ‘‘clearly emphasize readers’ own need to act responsibly’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

...’’ (29). This line of inquiry leads her through the pages of monthly magazines such as Harper’s, Atlantic, and Scribner’s and novels including James’s The Bostonians and Howells’s Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes. Her reconsideration of Charles Sheldon’s wildly popular (at the time) novel...

... of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con- science is awakened? In these novels of “perplexed sympathy” (29), Petrie shows, the most...

... of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con- science is awakened? In these novels of “perplexed sympathy” (29), Petrie shows, the most...

... principles. He demonstrates the problematic connections between theory and practice in fine analyses of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con...

... of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con- science is awakened? In these novels of “perplexed sympathy” (29), Petrie shows, the most...

... principles. He demonstrates the problematic connections between theory and practice in fine analyses of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con...

... principles. He demonstrates the problematic connections between theory and practice in fine analyses of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con...

... of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con- science is awakened? In these novels of “perplexed sympathy” (29), Petrie shows, the most...

... of three well-chosen novels—The Minister’s Charge, Annie Kilburn, and The Vacation of the Kelwyns—to show how Howells an- swered the question, What can one person accomplish once the social con- science is awakened? In these novels of “perplexed sympathy” (29), Petrie shows, the most...