William Dean Howells and the American Memory Crisis By Lance Rub ...

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rubin, Lance.
     William Dean Howells and the American memory crisis / Lance Rubin.
           p. cm.
     Includes bibliographical references and index.
     ISBN 978-1-60497-544-4 (alk. paper)
1. Howells, William Dean, 1837–1920—Criticism and interpretation.
2. Memory in literature.
3. National characteristics, American, in literature.
4. Realism in literature.
5. Collective memory and literature. I. Title.

     PS2037.M46R83 2008
     818’.409—dc22

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