Pdf: A Hazard Of New Fortunes

No one can complain that in this story Mr. Howells has taken his type from the commonplace. It is a study of life in New York, and the author has brought t ...

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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, University of Basel (English Seminar), course: 2nd Year Course: Howells & Ja ...

Jay Gladstone was born to privilege. He is a civic leader and a generous philanthropist, as well as the owner of a basketball team. When a white cop shoots ...

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Midway of the Ponte Vecchio at Florence where three arches break the lines of the little jewellers' booths glittering on either hand and open an approach t ...

Exploring the consciousness and creative impulse of William Dean Howells, Professor Vanderbilt finds that Howells' personality reflected the mixed feelings ...

Reproduction of the original: A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells ...

In 'A Hazard of New Fortunes' Mr. Howells took for his hero the editor of a New York magazine. In 'The World of Chance' the leading character is a young jo ...

This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscr ...

First published in 1893, when Stephen Crane was only twenty-one years old, Maggie is the harrowing tale of a young woman’s fall into prostitution and des ...

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Mr. Howells has in the present volume given his writings the form of a series of historical stories, in which his native State is described and pictured fr ...

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in th ...

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These two nouvelles mark Howells' plunge into psychological realism. Their themes-a triangle of tragic agonies with psychological insights intriguingly pro ...

Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emer ...

Kaplan redefines American realism as a genre more engaged with a society in flux than with one merely reflective of the status quo. She reads realistic nar ...

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Despite efforts at revival by John Updike and others, William Dean Howells still remains in the shadows of his close friends Mark Twain and Henry James. Th ...

Until the nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how ...

Focusing on key works of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gainin ...

The Difficult Art of Giving rethinks standard economic histories of the literary marketplace. Traditionally, American literary histories maintain that the ...

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Literary realists have often been dismissed by later writers of the modernist and post-structuralist schools for their lack of aesthetic sophistication and ...

This book argues that language and literature actively produced chance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by categorizing injuries and lo ...

Possibly the most influential figure in the history of American letters, William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was, among other things, a leading novelist in th ...

Who has ruled New York? Has power become more concentrated—or more widely and democratically dispersed—in American cities over the past one hundred yea ...

For five decades John M. Murrin has been the consummate historian's historian. This volume brings together his seminal essays on the American Revolution, t ...

No other American novelist has written so fully about language -- grammar, diction, the place of colloquialism and dialect in literary English, the relatio ...

Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning wi ...

With 'The Minister's Charge' Mr. Howells has reached the point where his books are less interesting individually than as parts of a series, and one has the ...

"This is a masterpiece overflowing with insight, argument, scholarship, and passion. This book will be much discussed, reviewed, and I would predict quickl ...

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

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