塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹 Rise of Silas Lapham

ThiseditionofTheRiseofSilasLaphamreprintsthetextestablishedbyWalterJ.MeserveandDavidJ.NordlohforASelectedEditionofW.D.Howells.ExtensivePublishedbyIndianaUniversityPressin1971andbearingthesealoftheMLACenterforEditionsofAmericanAuthors.Thecopy-textusedbyMeserveandNordlohwasthenovelasitwasserializedintheCenturyIllustratedMagazineinteninstallmentsbetweenoctober8,1884,andjuly11,1885.DecisionstoemendtheserialtextwerebasedonstudyofthesevenotherAmericanandEnglisheditionsoverwhichHowellsmayhavehadsonecontrol;ofHowells'correspondence;andofrecordsofthepublishinghousesandcopyrightdepositories.TothistextextensivehistoricalannotationshavebeenaddedtothetextofthisNortonCriticalEdition.TheprocessofcompositionisfollowedthroughHowells?initialsketchesandletters.AnalysisofthecontemporarystereotypesandmythsthatHowellsparodiedinhisnovelisprovidedbyRobertFalk,ClarkW.Bryan,TheodoreDreiser,andRobieMacauley,andbylettersfromRoswellSmithtoHowells.Contemporaryresponsesbyfriendsandreaders,andbycritics,illustratethemisunderstandingandhostilitywithwhichrealisticfictionwassometimesgreetedinHowells?time.CriticalessaysbyDonaldPizer,WilliamR.ManierreII,JohnE.Hart,HaroldH.Kolb,GeorgeN.Bennett,EverettCarter,andG.ThomasTansellerepresentavarietyofwaysinwhichthenovelhasengagedtheattentionofcriticsaswellasabroadselectionofthecriticalmethodsthathavebeenappliedtoit.AsoneoftheprimarydocumentsofAmericanliteraryrealism,thenovelraisesquestionsastothemeaningandutilityofrealismasanaestheticideal.ThesequestionsaretreatedinessaysbyC.HughHolman,HenryJames,LarzerZiff,EdwinH.Cady,RobertM.Figg,CharlesL.Campbell,andHowellshimself.