On Howells

Edwin H. Cady is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Emeritus, at Duke University.Louis J. Budd in James B. Duke Professor, Emeritus, at Duke University. Both scholars have served as Managing Editor and Chair of the Board of Editors of American Literature.

"The journal American Literature was founded in 1929 and since that time has regularly published important articles on the study of literature in the United States. Many of the articles that appeared in the journal have, in fact, become the ‘standard view’ or ‘the final word’ on a particular literary subject. . . . The series will be an important acquisition for every college library." - Choice

• Series Introduction viiThe Literary Background of Howells's Social Criticism (1942) / George Arms 1A Note on Howells and "The Smiling Aspects of Life" (1945) / Edwin H. Cady 18Materials and Form in Howells's First Novels (1947) / William M. Gibson 21The Equalitarian Principle in the Fiction of William Dean Howells (1952) / William F. Ekstrom 30Howells, The Atlantic Monthly, and Republicanism (1952) / Louis J. Budd 41William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and The Story of a Country Town (1958) / James B. Stronks 59The Ethical Unity of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1960) / Donald Pizer 65Point of View in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1962) / William McMurray 71Marcia Gaylord's Electra Complex: A Footnote to Sex in Howells (1962) / Kermit Vanderbilt 79The Function of Setting in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1963) / Mary S. Sulivan 89The Architecture of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1966) / G. Thomas Tanselle 104Howells and Ade (1966) / Jack Brenner 132The Dark Side of Their Wedding Journey (1969) / Marion W. Cumpiano 142William Dean Howells. George William Curtis, and the "Haymarker Affair" (1969) / Clara and Rudolf Kirk 157Savagery and Civilization: The Moral Dimensions of Howells's A Boy's Town (1969) / Tom H. Towers 169Transformations: The Blithedale Romance to Howells and James (1976) / Robert Emmet Long 180The Wilderness Within: Howells's A Boy's Town (1976) / Thomas Cooley 200Invalids and Actresses: Howells's Duplex Imagery for American Women (1976) / Sidney H. Bremer 216William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chestnut: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1976) / William L. Andrews 232Howells's Oresteia: The Union of Theme and Structure in The Shadow of a Dream (1977) / Barbara L. Parker 245An Interoceanic Episode: THe Lady of thte Aroostook (1977) / John W. Crowley 258Index 270