...Phillip Barrish Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather , by Petrie Paul R. , Tuscaloosa : University o f Alabama Press , 2005 . 256 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 m Reviews Literary Realism and Social...

... of phoneticized dialect has as much to do with the longstanding conception of Yiddish as a pointedly spoken “folk language” as it does with the status of dialect in the explicidy American project of local-color realism advocated by Cahan’s most tireless promoter, William Dean Howells. Wirth-Nesher...

... common to many contemporary writers” (12). See Howells and York for further explorations of the connections between the everyday and gender identity in Munro’s fiction. 2. As Munro herself has explained in reference to her story “The Ottawa Val- ley”: “I’m looking at all this material, I’m looking...

... Howells to Richard Rorty as a single “long moment in white American liberalism” (2006, 5), and that we may therefore take advantage of the way realists like Henry James and Wharton “artistically trace and circumscribe the densely overcrossing lines and cracks of social and emotional ‘relations’” (6), so...

... text can perform meaningful linguistic subversion, I focus on Rhys’s fragments not in their abstract relation to cultural dichotomies but in terms of the psychic fragmentation they represent. Although critics such as Elaine Savory, Coral Ann Howells,Teresa O ’Connor, and Sue...

... Fiction . Gainesville : University Press of Florida . Hoeller Hildegard . 2006 . “ Race, Modernism, and Plagiarism: The Case of Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary.’ ” African American Review 40 , no. 3 : 421 – 37 . Howells William Dean . 1889 . “ Editor’s Study .” Harper’s New Monthly...

... with equanimity about Agnes to his good pal Howell Jenkins, “I set out to cauterize out her memory and I burnt it out with a course of booze and other women and now it’s gone” (193). Those other women included Marjorie Bump, a Petoskey native who would appear as “Marge” in “The End of Something” (1924...

... realism of the 1920s and 1930s, which in turn yields to the problem realism of the 40s and 50s, and even looks forward to the neorealisms of the 80s and after, the question endures: is realism by definition middle class? And is middle-class fiction necessarily realistic? Hutner argues that Howells...

..., and revises both recent critics and commentators from the era of each work’s creation. Hence Blyn has important things to say not only about films and novels but also about such critics as Sarah Chinn, Walter Benn Michaels, William Dean Howells, and Siegfried Kracauer. There is, moreover, much...

... as citizens rather than from their status as married women” (36). Nevertheless, even as male authors assertively negotiated contracts with an increasingly industrialized pub- lishing industry (in one of the book’s many inside-baseball tidbits, Irr reports that William Dean Howells went so far...

.... Lehan, Richard. “The European Background.” The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Ed. Donald Pizer. 459 Amy Clukey Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1995. 47-76. Linett, Maren. “‘New words, new everything’: Trauma and Fragmentation...