...Allen F. Stein Nettels Elsa. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. xi + 236 pp. $23.00. Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 80 REVIEWS Language, Race, and Social Class in Howells’s America. By ELSANETTELS. Lex...

...Elsa Nettels Ross Posnock. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. 231 pp. $24.00. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 ELSA NETTELS 215 No one writes a thoughtful book without someone else wishing for dif- ferent emphasis...

...Elsa Nettels Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 THE AMBASSADORS AND THE SENSE OF THE PAST By ELSANETTELS Lambert Strether, the central character of The Ambassadors, is Henry James’s most detailed...

..., the selflessness and courage, that were in the man all along but which he allowed his Boston punuits to obscure for awhile. But they reveal something else about him as well, something Elsa Nettels per- ceives as every bit as crucial to Howells’s portrayal of him as his bedrock virtues: Silas speaks...

.... One place where occasionally he did not, quite clearly, is in his handling of language, as Nettels admirably shows. My use of the word occasionally in the last sentence suggests the one major difference between my view of Howells’s handling of language and that presented by Nettels...

..., as Nettels admirably shows. My use of the word occasionally in the last sentence suggests the one major difference between my view of Howells’s handling of language and that presented by Nettels. Though his pattern here is consistent, it strikes me as somewhat less rigid than Nettels shows...

... Romantics subscribed to one tenet in their welter of views and emphases, it was that life is not static; that the human spirit can look on the world with fresh eyes; and that, by represent- ing itself to itself, the selfsame spirit can change its own being. ELSA NETTELS...

.... COMPARATIVELITERATURE Guerard, Albert J. The Triumph of the Novel: Dickens, Dostoevsky, Faulkner. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. 365 pp. $13.95. Mitchell, Breon. James Joyce and the German Novel, 1922-1933. .Qthens: Ohio Uni- versity Press, 1976. xvi + 194 pp. $12.00. Nettels, Elsa...