Conscience and Purpose

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出版者:Univ of Alabama Pr
作者:Petrie, Paul R.
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页数:232
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出版时间:2005-11
价格:$ 42.38
装帧:HRD
isbn号码:9780817314842
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Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others.In a series of influential essays that appeared in "Harper's," W. D. Howells argued for literature as a vehicle for social change. Literature could and should, Howells suggested, mediate across divisions of class and region, fostering cross-cultural sympathies that would lead to comprehensive social and ethical reform. Paul R. Petrie explores the legacy of Howells's beliefs as they manifest themselves in Howell's fiction and in the works of three major American writers--Charles W. Chesnutt, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Willa Cather. Each author struggled to adapt Howells's social-ethical agenda for literature to his or her own aesthetic goals and to alternative conceptions of literary purpose. Jewett not only embraced Howells's sense of social mission but also extended it by documenting commonplace cultural realities in a language and vision that was spiritual and transcendent. Chesnutt sought to improve relations between Anglo readers and African Americans, but his work, such as "The Conjure Woman," also questions literature's ability to repair those divides. Finally, Petrie shows how Cather, as she shifted from journalism to fiction, freed herself from Howells's influence. "Alexander's Bridge" (1912) and "O Pioneers " (1913) both make reference to social and material realities but only as groundwork for character portrayals that are mythic and heroic. The result of Petrie's exploration is a refreshing reassessment of Howells's legacy and its impact on American literature and social history at the turn of the century. Paul R. Petrie is Associate Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University where he has taught American Literature since 1998.

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