Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Letters of an Altrurian Traveller, 1893-4
Author: William Dean HowellsLetters of an Altrurian traveller, 1893-94
Author: Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (Classic Reprint)
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266481164
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Excerpt from Letters of an Altrurian Traveller Before the month was ended, an. Even longer letter went to Cyril, this time from Chicago, where Homos had journeyed to visit the great Columbian Ex position of 1893. This second Letter, likewise never reprinted, is of especial interest to the modern reader. In it is expressed the hope that the United States might eventually evolve toward the Altrurian vision of Classical beauty and Christian brotherhood which almost miraculously had become embodied in the White City on the shores of Lake Michigan. Aristides had always thought of Chicago as merely a sort of ultimate Manhattan, the realized ideal of that lar'geness, loudness and fastness which New York has persuaded the Americans is metro politan. He added: But after seeing the World's Fair City here, I feel as if 'i had caught a glimpse of the glorious capitals which will whiten the hills and shores of the east and the borderless plains of the west, when the New York and the Newer York of today shall seem to all the future Americans as impossible as they would seem to any Altrurian now. 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.
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller, 1893-94
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94)... A Facsimile Reprod
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 127
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Letters of an Altrurian Traveller, 1893-94. A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introd. by Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk
Author: William Dean HowellsPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 127
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The Republic for which it Stands
Author: Richard WhitePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199735816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The newest volume in the Oxford History of the United States series, The Republic for Which It Stands argues that the Gilded Age, along with Reconstruction--its conflicts, rapid and disorienting change, hopes and fears--formed the template of American modernity.
Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia
Author: Nathaniel Robert WalkerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192605879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 573
Book Description
The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.
Letters, Fictions, Lives
Author: Michael AneskoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195362926
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
In this unique and long-awaited volume, Michael Anesko documents the literary cross-fertilization between Henry James and William Dean Howells, collecting 151 letters, nearly all the extant correspondence between the two men, as well as the most significant critical commentary James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James. Scholars have long recognized the peculiar importance of the relationship between these two exponents of realistic fiction--their mutual respect and occasional animosity. But the record of their affinities and substantial differences has never before been so amply and compellingly established. Containing dozens of previously unpublished letters by James, and featuring a detailed biographical chronology as well as extensive interpretive commentaries that meticulously chart the development of this remarkable literary friendship, Letters, Fictions, Lives, edited to the highest standards of scholarly excellence, will prove an invaluable resource for scholars and students of James and Howells, and will hold great interest for dedicated readers of their fiction and for those studying epistolary issues and literary influence between contemporaries.