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Author:

Petrie, Paul R., 1964-

Title:

Conscience and purpose : fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather / Paul R. Petrie.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvii, 234 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chesnutt, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism

ISBN:

9780817314842
0817314849

OCLC:

(OCoLC)58788870

LCCN:

2005008009

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)