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...These were forerunners of naturalism , which reached heights in...