Thomas Wortham, editor, The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1853-1861.(Book review)

Nineteenth-Century Prose | December 22, 1991| | Copyright

Thomas Wortham, editor, The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1853-1861 (Ohio UP, 1990), 387 pp., $39.95 cloth.

In the current debate over a revised canon of major American authors, Howells appears to be headed for new trouble. For all his alleged "comeback" in the 1950s and the steady expansion of interpretive studies thereafter, buttressed by the NEH-subsidized Indiana edition of the major works and correspondence, Howells suffers the uncertainty of an aging major-league player fighting for his life in the spring to avoid the ignominy of being sent down ...

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