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Although he was an important novelist, poet and playwright in his own right, William Dean Howells also played a major role in shaping the literary landscape of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in his capacity as a critic. In this important essay from 1901, Howells holds forth on a then-current crop of novels dealing with social issues.

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Publié par	The Floating Press
Date de parution	01 février 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781776675876
Langue	English

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A PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNTER-CURRENT IN RECENT FICTION
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WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

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A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction First published in 1901 Epub ISBN 978-1-77667-587-6 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77667-588-3 © 2015 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
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A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction I II III IV V VI VII VIII References
A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction
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It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems acataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the oppositequarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presencemay usually be recognized as a beginning of the turn in every tidewhich is sure, sooner or later, to come. In reform, it is the menaceof reaction; in reaction, it is the promise of reform; we may takeheart as we must lose heart from it. A few years ago, when a movementwhich carried fiction to the highest place in literature wasapparently of such onward and upward sweep that there could be noreturn or descent, there was a counter-current in it which stayed itat last, and pulled it back to that lamentable level where fiction isnow sunk, and the word "novel" is again the synonym of all that ismorally false and mentally despicable. Yet that this, too, is partlyapparent, I think can be shown from some phases of actual fictionwhich happen to be its very latest phases, and which are of asignificance as hopeful as it is interesting. Quite as surely asromanticism lurked at the heart of realism, something that we may call"psychologism" has been present in the romanticism of the last four orfive years, and has now begun to evolve itself in examples which it isthe pleasure as well as the duty of criticism to deal with.
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No one in his day has done more to popularize the romanticism, nowdecadent, than Mr.