The Howellsian
Information or announcements for The Howellsian should be sent to the editor, Sanford Marovitz, smarovit at kent dot edu.
By-laws of the William Dean Howells Society are available on this site.

New Series

The New Series of The Howellsian is peer-reviewed. If you're a Howells Society member, please e-mail me to get the password. You can also find the password on the back page of each issue of The Howellsian.

Editor: 8.1-10.1: Sanford Marovitz
Printing and mailing support 8.1-10.1: Susan Goodman, University of Delaware
Layout and design: Donna Campbell, Washington State University

Issue Contents
Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2005)
  • Book excerpt: William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson
  • WDHS activities and announcements
  • Howells sessions at ALA
  • Recent criticism on Howells
Volume 8, Number 2 (Fall 2005)
  • Article: "Twain's Whitter Birthday Speech and Howells" by Jerome Loving
  • Book review: William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life, reviewed by Sarah Daugherty
  • Howells abstracts from ALA 2005
  • WDHS activities and announcements
Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2006)
  • Article: "William Dean Howells and Harold Frederic" by Patrick K. Dooley
  • WDHS activities and announcements:
    • Howells essay prize
    • New howells-l discussion list
  • Annotated bibliography of recent Howells criticism
  • The WDH Society web site (article)
Volume 9, Number 2 (Fall 2006)
  • Abstracts from Howells Sessions
  • Howells Dinner and Excursion to Kittery Point at ALA 2007
  • Book review by Sarah Daugherty: The Master and the Dean by Rob Davidson
  • Announcement of Howells Essay Prize Winner
  • Call for Papers for ALA 2007
Volume 10, Number 1 (Spring 2007)
  • Announcement of Tavern Club Dinner and Excursion to Kittery Point
  • ALA Panels
  • Howells Society Prize Essay: “Guilt by Dissociation; or, the Merciless Quality of The Quality of Mercy” by Michael Anesko ( Pennsylvania State University)
  • Book review by Elsa Nettels: Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather by Paul R. Petrie.
  • Howells Society Elections
Volume 10, Number 2 (Fall 2007)
  • WDHS Events at ALA 2007: "A Banner Weekend in Boston" by Sanford Marovitz
  • Minutes from the WDHS Business Meeting
  • Howells Prize Essay: "Marriage and the American Medical Woman in Dr. Breen's Practice" by Frederick Wegener (California State University at Long Beach)
  • Howells Memorial House in Danger of Being Sold
  • Book review by Riccarda Sagese: Venetian Nights, newly translated into Italian.
  • Abstracts from ALA Panels on Howells

William Dean Howells as a young man

Note: This picture was scanned by me in 1997 from an out-of-copyright source.

Volume 1, Number 1 (June 1996)
Volume 1, Number 2 (January 1997)
Volume 2, Number 1 (June 1997)
Volume 2, Number 2 (January 1998)
Volume 3, Number 1 (June 1998)
Volume 3, Number 2 (January 1999)
Volume 4, Number 1 (June 1999)
Volume 4, Number 2 (January 2000)
Volume 5, Number 1 (June 2000) 
Volume 5, Number 2 (January 2001)
Volume 6, Number 1 (June 2001)
Volume 6, Number 2 (January 2002) and
Volume 7, Number 1 (June 2002)

 

 

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