Abbreviations; A Note on Editorial Procedure; PART ONE: ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; A Season in Cambridge; Complex Fates; The Larger Success; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART TWO: FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITIES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; "Those Badly Assorted Siamese Twins"; The Art of Fiction; Complicity; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART THREE: LEGENDS OF MASTERY; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; The Great Goethe, the Good Schiller; Testamentary Acts; Terminations; Notes; Letters and Documents; Epilogue.
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This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. The 151 letters included represent each writer's most significant criticism of the other.
Letters, fictions, lives.
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Correspondence.
Selections
Howells, William Dean,1837-1920
James, Henry,1843-1916
Howells, William Dean,1837-1920.
James, Henry,1843-1916.
Authors, American-- 19th century, Correspondence.
Authors, American-- 20th century, Correspondence.
Critics-- United States, Correspondence.
Fiction-- Authorship.
Novelists, American-- 19th century, Correspondence.
Novelists, American-- 20th century, Correspondence.