On Howells

Series Introduction vii
The Literary Background of Howells's Social Criticism (1942) / George Arms 1
A Note on Howells and "The Smiling Aspects of Life" (1945) / Edwin H. Cady 18
Materials and Form in Howells's First Novels (1947) / William M. Gibson 21
The Equalitarian Principle in the Fiction of William Dean Howells (1952) / William F. Ekstrom 30
Howells, The Atlantic Monthly, and Republicanism (1952) / Louis J. Budd 41
William Dean Howells, Ed Howe, and The Story of a Country Town (1958) / James B. Stronks 59
The Ethical Unity of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1960) / Donald Pizer 65
Point of View in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1962) / William McMurray 71
Marcia Gaylord's Electra Complex: A Footnote to Sex in Howells (1962) / Kermit Vanderbilt 79
The Function of Setting in Howells's The Landlord at Lion's Head (1963) / Mary S. Sulivan 89
The Architecture of The Rise of Silas Lapham (1966) / G. Thomas Tanselle 104
Howells and Ade (1966) / Jack Brenner 132
The Dark Side of Their Wedding Journey (1969) / Marion W. Cumpiano 142
William Dean Howells. George William Curtis, and the "Haymarker Affair" (1969) / Clara and Rudolf Kirk 157
Savagery and Civilization: The Moral Dimensions of Howells's A Boy's Town (1969) / Tom H. Towers 169
Transformations: The Blithedale Romance to Howells and James (1976) / Robert Emmet Long 180
The Wilderness Within: Howells's A Boy's Town (1976) / Thomas Cooley 200
Invalids and Actresses: Howells's Duplex Imagery for American Women (1976) / Sidney H. Bremer 216
William Dean Howells and Charles W. Chestnut: Criticism and Race Fiction in the Age of Booker T. Washington (1976) / William L. Andrews 232
Howells's Oresteia: The Union of Theme and Structure in The Shadow of a Dream (1977) / Barbara L. Parker 245
An Interoceanic Episode: THe Lady of thte Aroostook (1977) / John W. Crowley 258
Index 270