Preface
The Text of The Rise of Silas Lapham
Textual Note: Hyphenation of Divided Words
Composition and Backgrounds
COMPOSITION
W. D. Howells · The Rise of Silas Needham
W. D. Howells · The "Savings Bank" Notebook
W. D. Howells · Letter to Richard Watson Gilder (July 31, 1884)
W. D. Howells · Letter to Mark Twain (August 10, 1884)
W. D. Howells · Letter to Henry James (August 22, 1884)
Ellen B. Ballou · Gentlemen Publishers
Illustration: The Counting Room at the Riverside Press in the 1880s
W. D. Howells · Letter to His Father (August 10, 1884)
W. D. Howells · [Summer in New York]
Richard Watson Gilder · Letter to W. D. Howells (February 18, 1885)
Roswell Smith · Letter to W. D. Howells (February 18, 1885)
Textual Variations · The Dynamite Passages
Cyrus L. Sulzberger · Letter to W. D. Howells (July 12, 1885)
W. D. Howells · Letter to Cyrus L. Sulzberger (July 17, 1885)
Cyrus L. Sulzberger · Letter to W. D. Howells (July 19, 1885)
Textual Variations · The Jews
W. D. Howells and Paul Kester · The Rise of Silas Lapham: A Play
BACKGROUNDS: THE MYTH OF SUCCESS
Robert Falk · W. D. Howells: Maturity in Fiction
Clark W. Bryan · The Literature of the Household
Theodore Dreiser · How He Climbed Fame's Ladder
Roswell Smith · Letters to W. D. Howells (March 7, 1885-April 6, 1885)
Robie Macauley · Let Me Tell You About the Rich
Contemporary Responses
FRIENDS AND READERS
John Hay · Letter to W. D. Howells (April 2, 1885)
Henry Norman · Letter to W. D. Howells (April 14, 1885)
William James · Letter to W. D. Howells (March 5. 1885)
Harold Frederic · Letter to W. D. Howells (May 5, 1885)
Clarence E. Buel · Letter to W. D. Howells (May 9, 1885)
W. D. Howells · Letter to Clarence E. Buel (May 11, 1885)
Owen Wister · Letter to W. D. Howells (May 21, 1885)
Henry James · Letter to W. D. Howells (May 23, 1885)
THE CRITICS
William Morton Payne · Recent Fiction
[A Characteristically American Book]
Horace Scudder · Recent American Fiction
[A Literal, Merciless Representation]
[Novel-Writing as a Science]
Hamilton Wright Mabie · A Typical Novel
Maurice Thompson · The Analysts Analyzed
"Diplomaticus" · A Portrayer of the Commonplace
Forrest Reid · W. D. Howells
Criticism
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Donald Pizer · The Ethical Unity of The Rise of Sila, Lapham
William R. Manierre II · The Rise of Silos Lapham: Retrospective Discussion as Dramatic Technique
John E. Hart - The Commonplace as Heroic in The Rise of Silas Lapham
Harold H. Kolb · [The Realist's Symbols]
George N. Bennett · [Family Unity in The Rise of Silas Lapham]
Everett Carter - [Silas Lapham and the Public Morality]
G. Thomas Tanselle · The Architecture of The Rise of Silos Lapham
HOWELLS AND THE DILEMMAS OF REALISM
C. Hugh Holman · Of Everything the Unexplained and Irresponsible Specimen: Notes on How to Read American Realisml
W. D. Howells · Henry James, Jr.
Henry James · William Dean Howells
W. D. Howells · [A Call For Realism]
Larzer Ziff · [Literary Hospitality: William Dean Howells]
Edwin H. Cady · The Chief American Realist:1881-1885
Robert M. Figg Ⅲ · Naturalism as a Literary Form
Charles L. Campbell · Realism and the Romance of Real Life: Multiple Fictional Worlds in Howells' Novels
Selected Bibliography