American Literary Mentors
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by Irene C. Goldman-Price and
Melissa McFarland Pennell
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Presenting a rich and suggestive picture of the complex
relationships between aspiring writers and their mentors
from the 1870s to the late 20th century, these essays
cover an extraordinarily productive era in American
letters. In the context of significant changes in the
nature of authorship and publishing during the period,
they show the importance of guidance in establishing a
successful literary career. This book offers a new, wider
definition of mentoring and suggests fruitful ways for
critics and readers to explore the careers and works of
writers, especially women writers, from the realist and
modernist periods.
Contents
Introduction, by Irene C. Goldman-Price and Melissa
McFarland Pennell
1. "The Last Letter of All": Reese, Stedman,
and Poetry in Late-Nineteenth-Century America, by Robert
J. Scholnick
2. The Mentor's Charge: Literary Mentoring in Howells's
Criticism and Fiction, by Melissa McFarland Pennell
3. "In this particular instance I want you":
The Booster as Mentor in A Hazard of New Fortunes,
by Irene C. Goldman-Price
4. Henry James's Ghostly Mentors, by Cheryl B. Torsney
5. Negative Mentorship and the Case of Alice James, by
Esther F. Lanigan
6. Female Models and Male Mentors in Wharton's Early
Fiction, by Julie Olin-Ammentorp
7. Edith Wharton and Partnership: The House of Mirth,
The Decoration of Houses, and "Copy," by
Carol J. Singley
8. Meetings of Minds: Edith Wharton as Mentor and Guide,
by Helen Killoran
9. "Someone Young and Teachable": Dimensions of
Mentoring in the Fiction of Willa Cather, by Deborah
Carlin
10. "Efforts of Affection": Mentorship and
Friendship in Moore and Bishop, by Margaret Wooster
Freeman
11. Eudora Welty: The Silent Mentors, by Jean Frantz
Blackall
Irene C. Goldman-Price is a lecturer in English and
women’s studies at Pennsylvania State University,
Hazelton. She is the author of several book chapters and
of articles in the Journal of Popular Literature
and Modern Language Studies.
Melissa McFarland Pennell, associate professor of English
at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, is the author
of The Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
and of essays on 19th-century American literature.
1999. 192pp. 6 X 9.
ISBN 0-8130-1712-2 Cloth, $55.00
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"Well-researched, insightful essays. . . . An
important book on literary mentoring in American belles
lettres."—Elizabeth Hayes, LeMoyne
College
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