Date of Award
6-1936
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
John Purcell
Abstract
In Howells novels v,e find liberalism, a deep sympathy with the "little man", hatred of plutocracy, and abundance of esthetic virtue, and a critique of industrial capitalism by which we are coming to test Howells mental calibre. The novels with all their virtues, ease of style, urbanity, irony, humanity, sharp dissent from the ideas and practices of our commercial world, lend themselves very gracefully to study of their influence on contemporary literature and contemporary reading tastes. The purpose of this study is to show these influences.
Recommended Citation
Dzwinel, Joseph, "William Dean Howells, His Realism and Relation to Our Contemporaries" (1936). Bachelors’ Theses. 60.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/60
Comments
A Thesis Submitted Partially to Fulfill the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy