Author: Clara Marburg KirkPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers U. P
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
W.D. Howells, Traveler from Altruria, 1889-1894
Author: Clara Marburg KirkPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers U. P
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller, 1893-94
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher: Gainesville, Florida : Scholars ́ Facsimiles & Reprints
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
A Utopian's incisive commentary upon the social & economic conditions of the U.S. at the time of the Chicago World's Fair.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 3, Prose Writing, 1860-1920
Author: Sacvan BercovitchPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521301077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Multi-volume history of American literature.
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334966491
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Excerpt from Letters of an Altrurian Traveller The banker was looking at the account the waiter handed him. He broke into an absent laugh, and then said to me, I beg your pardon You were saying? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Knights of the Golden Rule
Author: Peter J. FrederickPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813162890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This is a book about American intellectuals as would-be social reformers and what happens to them in the arena of practical politics. Specifically, it examines the lives of ten highly idealistic Christian socialist and anarchist intellectuals of the 1890s who were profoundly influenced—indeed inspired—by the prophetic social messages and exemplary lives of Tolstoy, Mazzini, and Ruskin. The ten Americans—including ministers, journalists, professors, and poets—were constantly thwarted in their efforts to apply the Golden Rule and the ethics of Jesus not only to the socioeconomic institutions of their society, but to their own lives as well. These ten Christian knights rode high on clouds of words, carrying swords of good intentions, tilting at windmills often of their own despair. As a result, they paid the price (as Emerson said) of being "too intellectual." This is, indeed, a story of noble dreams, frustration, agonizing self-doubts and, ultimately, of failure. Peter J. Frederick develops his argument by comparing and contrasting the intellectuals in pairs, examining the many forms frustrated activism can take. His study emerges as a critique of the Social Gospel movement from a New Left perspective; implicitly, it is a critique of the contemporary New Left, approached with empathetic understanding. Ethical, decisive action, he concludes, is essential not only for effective reform but for the psychic well-being of the intellectual.
The Image of Money in the American Novel of the Gilded Age
Author: Jan W. DietrichsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
A Traveller From Altruria
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752303891
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Traveller From Altruria by William Dean Howells
Cosmopolitan
Author: Representing the Nation
Author: Jessica EvansPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415208697
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading cultural thinkers to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.
The Social Self
Author: Joseph AlkanaPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183006
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
American literary history of the nineteenth-century as a conflict between individualistic writers and a conformist society. In The Social Self, Joseph Alkana argues that such a dichotomy misrepresents the views of many authors. Sudden changes caused by the industrial revolution, urban development, increased immigration, and regional conflicts were threatening to fragment the community, and such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William James, and William Dean Howells were deeply concerned about social cohesion. Alkana persuasively reintroduces Common Sense philosophy and Jamesian psychology as ways to understand how the nineteenth-century self/society dilemma developed. All three writers believed that introspection was the proper path to the discovery of truth. They also felt, Alkana argues, that such discoveries had to be validated by society. In these sophisticated readings of Hawthorne's short stories and The Scarlet Letter, Howells's utopian Altrurian romances, and James's The Principles of Psychology, it becomes obvious that characters who isolate themselves from the community do so at considerable psychological risk. The Social Self links these writers' interest in contemporary psychology to their concern for history and society. Alkana's argument that nineteenth-century expressions of individualism were defensive responses to the fear of social chaos radically revises the traditional narrative of American literary culture.