During this designated and long-awaited quantity, Michael Anesko records the literary cross-fertilization among Henry James and William Dean Howells, amassing 151 letters, approximately all of the extant correspondence among the 2 males, in addition to the main major severe remark James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James.
students have lengthy well-known the ordinary significance of the connection among those exponents of sensible fiction--their mutual recognize and coffee animosity. however the checklist in their affinities and titanic transformations hasn't ever sooner than been so amply and compellingly validated. Containing dozens of formerly unpublished letters through James, and that includes an in depth biographical chronology in addition to broad interpretive commentaries that meticulously chart the improvement of this striking literary friendship, Letters, Fictions, Lives, edited to the top criteria of scholarly excellence, will end up a useful source for students and scholars of James and Howells, and may carry nice curiosity for committed readers in their fiction and for these learning epistolary concerns and literary effect among contemporaries.
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