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Conscience and purpose : fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
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- Creator
- Paul R. Petrie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780817314842, 0817314849
- OCLC
- ocm58788870
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231] and index.
- W.D. Howells's literary antitheory : toward a social-ethical aesthetic in the Editor's study -- What is to be done? : Howells's social-ethical fiction -- "Unwritable things" : Sarah Orne Jewett's dual aesthetic in Deephaven and The country of the pointed firs -- Charles W. Chesnutt and the limits of literary mediation -- Willa Cather and the anti-realist uses of social reference -- Implications
Subjects
- Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell), 1858-1932 -- Ethics.
- Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Ethics.
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 -- Ethics.
- Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Ethics.
- American fiction -- History and criticism.
- Ethics in literature.
- Literature and society -- United States.
- Social ethics in literature.
- Conscience in literature.