New essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 132 pages)
Language:English
Series:The American novel
American novel.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12473921
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Other authors / contributors:Pease, Donald E.
ISBN:9780521373111
0521373115
9780521378987
0521378982
9780511624506
0511624506
0511876084
9780511876080
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) established William Dean Howells's reputation in the annals of American literature. This collection of essays, first published in 1991, argues the renewed importance of Howells's novel for an understanding of literature as a social force as well as a literary form. In his introduction Donald Pease recounts the fall and rise of the novel's value in literary history, outlines the various critical responses to Silas Lapham, and restores the novel to its social context. The essays that follow expand on this theme, challenging the accepted views of literary critics by explicating narrative methods and the genre of literary realism. Focusing much of its attention on economics of morality, manners, and pain, as well as the marketplace, the volume as a whole argues that a relationship exists between Howells's realism and its socioeconomic context.
Other form:Print version: New essays on the Rise of Silas Lapham. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991