附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Abbreviations; A Note on Editorial Procedure; PART ONE: ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; A Season in Cambridge; Complex Fates; The Larger Success; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART TWO: FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITIES; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; "Those Badly Assorted Siamese Twins"; The Art of Fiction; Complicity; Notes; Letters and Documents; PART THREE: LEGENDS OF MASTERY; Biographical Overview; Parallel Chronology; The Great Goethe, the Good Schiller; Testamentary Acts; Terminations; Notes; Letters and Documents; Epilogue.
摘要:This volume attempts to determine the early influence shared between William Dean Howells and Henry James by reconstructing and evaluating documentary evidence of their literary cross-fertilization. The 151 letters included represent each writer's most significant criticism of the other.