William Dean Howells's Indian Summer and Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest: forms and phases of the realist novel.(Critical essay) The Modern Language Review | January 1, 2007| | COPYRIGHT 2007 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Reviewing Fontane's essay on William Dean Howells's novel A Foregone Conclusion, Werner Hoffmeister identifies parallels in the two writers' careers and in their thinking about the realist novel. Building on Hoffmeister's suggestion that a comparison of individual novels would be fruitful, this essay compares Howells's novel Indian Summer and Fontane's Effi Briest. It suggests a more differentiated relationship between their conceptions of realism, showing how the realist's illusion of truth and plausibility produces distinct and variable forms of stylization, which are, at ...

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