Show English Professor A new edited by Kenneth E. Eble of the University English dealing with foremost American writers will soon be on the The book is entitled A Century of and is published by the Southern Methodist University Professor Eble received his Ph.D. degree from Columbia The book presents a body of criticism from periodicals illuminating the highs and lows of the uneven development of William Dean Howells' literary reputation which bears impressive witness to his unique place among American Eble has arranged this collection in two the first comprising critical writings by such literary contemporaries of Howells as James Russell Henry Thomas Henry Blake Henry Hamlin and Mark the second section includes more recent studies by scholars of our time which mark the renewed interest in Among these are studies of the revival by C. Hartley Newton and Edwon H. studies of Howells by James B. S. and the criticism of Howells' economic views by Walter Fuller Arnold B. and Graham Belcher and current opinion of the one-time of American by Lloyd Henry Steele and James |