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          Insurance became a valuable metaphor for Howellsian realism around , because it asserted a set of communitarian credentials that did not..

          Books by William Dean Howells.

        1. Books by William Dean Howells.
        2. "William Dean Howells and the Insurance of the Real." American Literary History (): 29+.
        3. Insurance became a valuable metaphor for Howellsian realism around , because it asserted a set of communitarian credentials that did not.
        4. Howells was a good but not a great novelist.
        5. William Dean Howells was a consummate man of letters.

          6. The W.D. Howells Society will host two panels at the American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference, which will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).  

           

          PANEL 1: HOWELLS & OTHERS

          The panel organizers invite proposals concerning Howells and his professional and/or personal intersections with the careers and works of his contemporary writers.

          Topics might include Howells’s work as editor or literary mentor in relation to other writers and their works, his role as public intellectual and/or cultural arbiter, or considerations of any of his works as intertextual responses to other writers and their texts.

          Proposals fitting the titular theme in other ways than those suggested here are also welcome.

           

          PANEL 2: OPEN TOPIC

          The panel organizers invite proposals concerning any and all approaches to Howells and his works, including but not limited to the following:

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