American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...again stressed by William Dean Howells , who was not only an able...leanings toward social reform, Howells did encourage what has come...cent. The realism preached by Howells was turned away from bourgeois...tried to capture the speech, life, and dreams of America; and...