| Physical description |
1 online resource (370 pages) |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Childhood; CHAPTER 1 A Selfish Ideal of Glory; CHAPTER 2 A Kind of Double Life; PART II Youth; CHAPTER 3 An Instance of Nervous Prostration; CHAPTER 4 The Umbrella Man; CHAPTER 5 Striving away from Home; CHAPTER 6 Woman's Sphere; CHAPTER 7 The Laying On of Hands; CHAPTER 8 The Province of Reason; CHAPTER 9 Desperate Leisure; PART III Later Life and the Return to Youth; CHAPTER 10 Bound to the Highest and the Lowest; Epilogue; Notes; Attributions, Permissions, and Notes for Illustrations; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-330) and index. |
| Summary |
"Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane, that psychic and intellectual history are intertwined. He presents a wonderful nuanced picture of Howells."--Jackson Lears, Rutgers University. In this insightful study of the childhood and youth of William Dean Howells, Dancing in Chains demonstrates how the turbulent social and cultural changes of the early nineteenth century shaped the y. |
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Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 -- Childhood and youth.
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Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Critics -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
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Ohio -- Social life and customs.
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Biographies |
| ISBN |
9780814762639 (electronic bk.) |
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0814762638 (electronic bk.) |
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0814761720 |
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9780814761786 |
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081476178X |
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