Conscience and purpose
Subtitle: fiction and social consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather
By: Paul R. Petrie.
Series: Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780817314842
Subjects: 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.
Table of contents: title: W.D. Howells's literary antitheory : toward a social-ethical aesthetic in the Editor's study; title: What is to be done? : Howells's social-ethical fiction; title: "Unwritable things" : Sarah Orne Jewett's dual aesthetic in Deephaven and The country of the pointed firs; title: Charles W. Chesnutt and the limits of literary mediation; title: Willa Cather and the anti-realist uses of social reference; title: Implications.