American literary mentors /

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Imprint:Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1999.
Description:x, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4115927
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Other authors / contributors:Goldman-Price, Irene C.
Pennell, Melissa McFarland.
ISBN:0813017122 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Irene C. Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell
  • "The last letter of all": Reese, Stedman, and Poetry in Late-Nineteenth-Century America / Robert J. Scholnick
  • The Mentor's Charge: Literary Mentoring in Howells's Criticism and Fiction / Melissa McFarland Pennell
  • "In this particular instance I want you": The Booster As Mentor in A Hazard of New Fortunes / Irene C. Goldman-Price
  • Henry James's Ghostly Mentors / Cheryl B. Torsney
  • Negative Mentorship and the Case of Alice James / Esther F. Lanigan
  • Female Models and Male Mentors in Wharton's Early Fiction / Julie Olin-Ammentorp
  • Edith Wharton and Partnership: The House of Mirth, The Decoration of Houses, and "Copy" / Carol J. Singley
  • Meetings of Minds: Edith Wharton As Mentor and Guide / Helen Killoran
  • "Someone young and teachable": Dimensions of Mentoring in the Fiction of Willa Cather / Deborah Carlin
  • "Efforts of Affection": Mentorship and Friendship in Moore and Bishop / Margaret Wooster Freeman
  • Eudora Welty: The Silent Mentors / Jean Frantz Blackall.