The Rise of Silas Lapham A Gilded Age Boston Novel of Business Ethics, Social Ambition, Courtship, and Conscience
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
196
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,3 cm
Gewicht
429 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3789-6
The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) is one of the defining novels of American literary realism, tracing the moral and social ascent-and collapse-of a self-made paint manufacturer in post-Civil War Boston. Howells replaces melodrama with ethical nuance, rendering class anxiety, business speculation, family ambition, and courtship through precise social observation and restrained irony. The novel's power lies in its refusal of easy romance: Silas's "rise" is tested not by wealth alone but by conscience, reputation, and the demands of integrity within a rapidly modernizing capitalist society. William Dean Howells, editor, critic, and influential advocate of realism, helped shape late nineteenth-century American fiction. His friendships with writers such as Mark Twain and Henry James, along with his long editorial career at The Atlantic Monthly, placed him at the center of debates about national literature. Howells's suspicion of aristocratic pretension and his interest in ordinary moral experience inform Lapham's encounter with Boston's older social elite. This novel is highly recommended for readers interested in the origins of modern American fiction, the ethics of capitalism, and the subtle drama of social mobility. It remains a humane, intelligent, and remarkably contemporary study of success and self-knowledge.
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