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- Title
William Dean Howells and the City of New York: A Hazard of New Writing.
- Authors
Blake, Linnie
- Abstract
This article focuses on the development of urban writing as reflected in the works of William Dean Howells. Formal and thematic changes in Howells' writings in the last years of the nineteenth century demonstrated the shift from the stasis of the rural past to the transient modern city of the present. The article also examined how Howells depicted the changes in life, artistic apprehension and literary representation prompted by capitalism. Howells also illustrated how money underwrote and framed the disjunctive, fragmented aspects of urban life.
- Subjects
HOWELLS, William Dean, 1837-1920; WRITING processes; URBAN life; CAPITALISM in literature; MONEY in literature; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2008, Vol 41, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0039-3819
- Publication type
Literary Criticism