A Psychological Counter-current in Recent Fiction
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A Psychological Counter-current in Recent Fiction
                                            
                            By William Dean Howells
                            
                                1 Nov, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Although he was an important novelist, poet, and playwright in his own right, William Dean Howells also played a major role in shaping the literary landscape of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in his capacity as a critic. In this im
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                                                Although he was an important novelist, poet, and playwright in his own right, William Dean Howells also played a major role in shaping the literary landscape of America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in his capacity as a critic. In this important essay from 1901, Howells holds forth on a then-current crop of novels dealing with social issues. Less