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25 mars 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.13055
- isbn: 9782842698805
- eisbn: 9782367814032
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Guillaume Tanguy, « Introduction: Reassessing William Dean Howells », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.13055
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Howells is all out now. All literary reputation-making is unjust, but Howells is the victim of perhaps the single greatest injustice in American literary history. The period from 1880 to 1900, Henry Adams once said, was ‘our Howells-and-James epoch,’ and the two bearded grandees stood on terms as equal as the Smith Brothers on a cough-drop box. But then Howells got identified, unfairly, with a Bostonian ‘genteel’ tradition, nice and dull. Now James gets Nicole Kidman and Helena Bonham-Carter,...