New Books and Articles

2022

Harner, Christina Henderson. “The 1893 Columbian Exposition and the Utopian Dreams of Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, and W. T. Stead.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 44, no. 1, 2022, pp. 89-109, https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2021.2023345

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2021.2023345.

Kolding, Isaac. American Literary Realism, vol. 54, no. 2, 2022, pp. 120-34, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/848363.

Wegener, Frederick. “Talking “Horse” and “House” In.” American Literary Realism, vol. 54, no. 2, 2022, pp. 95-119, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/848362.

2021

Davis, Cynthia J. Pain and the Aesthetics of Us Literary Realism. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Donaldson, Scott. “Hemingway at Work: “Cat in the Rain”.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 41, no. 1, 2021, pp. 84-93, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/837301.

Goldberg, Sylvan. “Our Extractive Imagination: Natural Resources, Origin Stories, and the Nineteenth-Century Us Novel.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 28, no. 4, 2021, pp. 1218-36, https://academic.oup.com/isle.

Knoper, Randall. “American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion”.” Oxford Studies in American Literary History, edited by Randall Knoper, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. vi, 297.

—. “Memory, Materiality, Mental Telegraphy.” Oxford Studies in American Literary History, edited by Randall Knoper, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. vi, 297.

—. “Vitality, Racial Creativity, and Biopolitics.” Oxford Studies in American Literary History, edited by Randall Knoper, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. vi, 297.

Melchior, Emile et al. “Early English-Language Responses to Tolstoy’s.” Critical Insights, edited by Robert C. Evans, Salem Press; Grey House Publishing, 2021, pp. xxxii, 329.

Peterfy, Margit. “”We Must Trust That Look of Hers”: William Dean Howells’s Urban Theory of Trust and Trustworthiness In.” American Culture Studies, edited by Gunter Leypoldt and Manfred Berg, Transcript: Verlag fur Kommunikation Kultur und soziale Praxis, 2021, p. 282.

Sedlmeier, Florian. “Greatness and the Convertibility of Literary Capital: W. D. Howells and Black Writers.” Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 69, no. 1, 2021, pp. 77-89.

Wonham, Henry B. “Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 93, no. 1, 2021, pp. 35-58, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hus&AN=149459820&site=ehost-live.

Yao, Christine Xine. “What a Doctor Should Look Like: Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress.” Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture, edited by Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. xiv, 375.

2020

Kaplan, Paul H. D. Contraband Guides: Race, Transatlantic Culture, and the Arts in the Civil War Era. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020.

Reckson, Lindsay V. Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature. New York University Press, 2020. Performance and American Cultures.

Richardson, Kelly L. “Contemporary Writers.” Mark Twain in Context, edited by John Bird and R. Kent Rasmussen, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. xxxi, 392.

Rohman, Chad. “Realism and Naturalism.” Mark Twain in Context, edited by John Bird and R. Kent Rasmussen, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. xxxi, 392.

Tanguy, Guillaume. “William Dean Howells and the Economic Novel: Heteronomy and Autonomy.” Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics, edited by Jacques-Henri Coste and Vincent Dussol, Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2020, pp. xv, 408.

Wells, Juliette. “”We Love Jane Austen More and More”: William Dean Howells and the Rise of American Janeitism.” Romantic Dialogues and Afterlives, edited by Monika Coghen and Anna Paluchowska-Messing, Jagiellonian University Press, 2020, p. 350.

Wonham, Henry B. “Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 92, no. 2, 2020, pp. 229-55, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/92/2/229/165162/Postcritical-Howells-American-Realism-and-Liberal.

2019

Aylesworth, Gary E. “Subjects, Autonomous and Otherwise.” Freedom and the Subject of Theory, edited by Oliver Davis and Colin Davis, Legenda Books, 2019, pp. xiii, 216.

Bardeleben, Renate von. “Transnational Precursors of American Realism.” Oxford Handbooks, edited by Keith Newlin, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xiv, 718.

Bird, John. “Realism and the Uses of Humor.” Oxford Handbooks, edited by Keith Newlin, Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xiv, 718.

Carey, Craig. “William Dean Howells, Thing Theory, and the Hazards of Speculative Realism.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 75, no. 1, 2019, pp. 85-109, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/719253.

Holbo, Christine.  Legal Realisms: The American Novel Under Reconstruction, Oxford UP, 2019. Includes a long chapter on Howells.

Piep, Karsten. “William Dean Howells’s “the Midnight Platoon” and the Post-Sentimental Fallacy.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews, vol. 32, no. 3, 2019, pp. 177-80, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mla&AN=137844268&site=ehost-live

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2018.1504670.

Schwartz, Jesse W. “”Dynamite Talk”: William Dean Howells, Racial Socialism, and a Legal Theory of Literary Complicity.” Nineteenth-Century Literature, vol. 73, no. 4, 2019, pp. 522-50, http://ncl.ucpress.edu/cgi/reprint/73/4/522

Sweeney, Brian. “Throwing Stones across the Potomac: The.” American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 29, no. 2, 2019, pp. 135-62, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/732424.

Thompson, Graham. “William Dean Howells’s Periodical Time.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 75, no. 4, 2019, pp. 77-106, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742727.

2018

Brandt, Stefan L. “‘Riddles of the Painful Earth’: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and the Aesthetics of the Commonplace.” American Studies: A Monograph Series, edited by Jutta Ernst et al., Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH, 2018, pp. xxi, 283.

Herrero-Puertas, Manuel. Crippling the Body Politic: Disability and Nation-Making in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. ProQuest, 2018.

Hubel, Lara. “Women Doctors in Henry James and William Dean Howells.” Working Women in American Literature, 1865-1950, edited by Miriam S. Gogol, Lexington Books, 2018, pp. xxxv, 158.

Jessee, Margaret Jay. “”The Third Sex”: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians in Queer, Liminal Literary Spaces.” Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women’s Literature: Thresholds in Women’s Writing, edited by Kristin J. Jacobson et al., Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2018, pp. xix, 320.

Puskar, Jason. “William Dean Howells.” Handbooks of English and American Studies, edited by Christine Gerhardt, Walter de Gruyter Inc., 2018, pp. x, 576.

Sedlmeier, Florian. “Howells and the Properties of Modern Literature.” American Studies: A Monograph Series, edited by Ilka Brasch and Ruth Mayer, Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH, 2018, p. 471.

—. “On the Conditions of the Field Imagination: Realism and William Dean Howells.” American Studies: A Monograph Series, edited by Frank Kelleter and Alexander Starre, Universitatsverlag Winter GmbH, 2018, p. 314.

2017

Barosky, Todd. “Social Justice and Nineteenth-Century Realism: William Dean Howells’s.” Critical Insights, edited by Robert C. Hauhart and Jeff Birkenstein, Salem Press; Grey House Publishing, 2017, pp. xxviii, 280.

Contreras, Alicia. “‘I’ll Publish Your Cowardice All over California’: Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton’s.” American Literary Realism, vol. 49, no. 3, 2017, pp. 210-25, http://muse.jhu.edu/article/654471.

Lewis, Charles. “Photographing the Painted Landscape: Photo-Ekphrasis In.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 39, no. 3, 2017, pp. 213-33, https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2017.1315209.

Liu, Yan. “Imagination and Construction of Cultural Identity: A Comparative Study of Different Reports on the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.” Comparative Literature: East & West, vol. 1, no. 1, 2017, pp. 11-24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25723618.2017.1339516.

McGrath, Brian Seto. “Boring Howells.” Raritan: A Quarterly Review, vol. 36, no. 4, 2017, pp. 36-53.

Miller, Sara Allison. Of Planchettes and Pickets: Spiritualism, the New Woman, and Literary Modernism, 1880-1920. ProQuest, 2017.

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