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The Coast of Bohemia
William Dean Howells
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William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her middle-class world: comfort, good looks, attentive young men. She seems willing to risk it all for the sake of what might be an artistic Gift, venturing with great trepidation to put her foot over the line into Bohemia to see if it might be the thing for her. Skewering the conventions of sentimental literature as usual, Howells keeps the reader guessing to the end as to the fate of Cornelia and her Gift.
William Dean Howells is at his iconoclastic best in this exploration of bourgeois values, particularly in the clash between respectable society and the dubious bohemian world of Art and Poetry. Cornelia Saunders has everything going for her in her middle-class world: comfort, good looks, attentive young men. She seems willing to risk it all for the sake of what might be an artistic Gift, venturing with great trepidation to put her foot over the line into Bohemia to see if it might be the thing for her. Skewering the conventions of sentimental literature as usual, Howells keeps the reader guessing to the end as to the fate of Cornelia and her Gift.
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"Well!" said Mrs. Saunders.
"You may be sure it's because he's good and thoughtful about it, and wants her not to have any embarrassment."
"Oh, I guess he's all right," said Mrs. Saunders. "But who'd ever have thought of having to take such precautions? I shouldn't think life was worth having on such terms, if I was a girl."
She told Cornelia about this strange social ceremony of chaperonage, which now for the first time practically concerned them.
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The night began to fall an hour before Cornelia's train reached New York, and it drew into the station, through the whirl and dance of parti-colored lights everywhere.
The black porter of the sleeping-ear caught up her bag and carried it out for her, as if he were going to. . . Read More
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I am rather surprised that this novel by Howells is not discussed that often in the current canon of American Literature. In it, Howells seems to be taking a pro-feminist approach to his main character. Howells was the primary advocate for the turn in American literature towards Realism and away fro
William Dean Howells, one of the greats of American writing of the first part of the twentieth century. Biography, literary criticism, art criticism, novels and short essays on miscellaneous subjects all came from his pen, but one of his early novels, “The Coast of Bohemia” is not representative of
A novel with a very promising beginning that putters out about halfway through. This realistic story from the 1890s is about a provincial young woman who wants to go to New York and become an art student. The depictions, early in the novel, of her art school, the social life there, the people she me
Poetry by an author known for prose
Sixty nine pages of poetry by a well known writer of prose. I am not qualified to critique poetry as I only know what I like... and what I don't. For what it's worth, I like Henry Timrod, Kipling, Poe, Coleridge, some William Blake and a few others. I don't like Wa
The mating habits of this set are incomprehensible even to those literate in the rom-com ways