| Description |
viii, 376 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages [351]-365) |
| Contents |
Land of contrasts -- Literary hospitality: William Dean Howells -- Literary absenteeism: Henry James and Mark Twain -- The Midwestern imagination -- Crushed yet complacent: Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller -- The tinkle of the little bell: magazines -- The school in the cemetery: newspapers -- The poles of violence: Ambrose Bierce and Richard Harding Davis -- Outstripping the event: Stephen Crane -- Overcivilization: Harold Frederic, the Roosevelt-Adams outlook, Owen Wister -- Being old-fashioned: F. Marion Crawford and John Jay Chapman -- Life without style: Frank Norris -- The abyss of inequality: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin -- In and out of Laodicea: The Harvard Poets and Edwin Arlington -- A decade's delay: Theodore Dreiser. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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