Table des matières

Liminaires

Guillaume Tanguy

Introduction: Reassessing William Dean Howells

Heinz Ickstadt

“. . . helping my people know themselves: ” Late William Dean Howells

Jean Rivière

“Go East, young man,” or the Eurocentric Outlook of W.D. Howells

Cécile Roudeau

The Angle(s) of Truth: Perspectives for an American Democratic Fiction in William Dean Howells’s Critical Writing

• 1 A Native’s Privilege: the Angle of the Local
• 2 In Search of the “Common: ” the True Particulars of the Nation
• 3 Relating America: the Democratic Fiction, or the “un-place-able common”

Denise Ginfray

Reality/Realities/Realism: William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton and the Robes of Fiction

• 1 “The truthful treatment of material,” or Howells’ realism in question(s)
• 2 “La langue peut copier le réel” (132)
• 3 “Le réel est un champ complexe et foisonnant, discontinu, ‘riche’ et nombrable, dénommable, dont il s’agit de faire l’inventaire” (162)
• 4 “Le texte n’est plus qu’une répétition, toute manifestation d’idiolecte étant chargée de provoquer un effet de réel” (141)
• 5 The Sting of Doubt, or Mimesis Revisited

Claude Dorey

The Daughter Beneath the Water, or the Watermark of the Impersonal

Erik Sherman Roraback

A Benjamin Monad of Guy Debord & W.D. Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) ; or, Individual & Collective Life & Status as Spectacle

Michèle Bonnet

Indian Summer: a “Cubical” Novel, or “the Narrow Line of Nature’s Truth”

Nathalie Cochoy

New York dans The Hazard of New Fortunes, de William Dean Howells : le sceau du silence

• 1 Une initiation au renoncement
• 2 Le prisme du magazine
• 3 « [T]his touch-and-go quality » (p. 257)

Guillaume Tanguy

“Suiting the pattern to the author’s mood: ” Erasing the line in A Hazard of New Fortunes

• 1 A Diatribe Against Cultural Philistines
• 2 The Sea Serpent
• 3 From Domestic inquest to Infinite Excursion
• 4 The Language of Chance. From Meaning to Non-Meaning

Marc Amfreville

La part de l’ombre

The Shadow of a Dream et An Imperative Duty

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