American Literary Centers (from Literature and Life)
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings.
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Title: American Literary Centers From Literature and Life
Author: William Dean Howells
Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #3382]
Language: English
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LITERATURE AND LIFE—American Literary Centers
by William Dean Howells
AMERICAN LITERARY CENTRES
One of the facts which we Americans have a difficulty in making clear to a rather inattentive world outside is that, while we have apparently a literature of our own, we have no literary centre. We have so much literature that from time to time it seems even to us we must have a literary centre. We say to ourselves, with a good deal of logic, Where there is so much smoke there must be some fire, or at least a fireplace. But it is just here that, misled by tradition, and even by history, we deceive ourselves. Really, we have no fireplace for such fire as we have kindled; or, if any one is disposed to deny this, then I say, we have a dozen fireplaces; which is quite as bad, so far as the notion of a literary centre is concerned, if it is not worse.
I once proved this fact to my own satisfaction in some papers which I wrote several years ago; but it appears, from a question which has lately come to me from England, that I did not carry conviction quite so far as that island; and I still have my work all before me, if I understand the London friend who wishes a comparative view of the centres of literary production
among us; how and why they change; how they stand at present; and what is the relation, for instance, of Boston to other such centres.
I.
Here, if I cut my coat according to my cloth, t should have a garment which this whole volume would hardly stuff