The Mask of Fiction
William Dean Howells's Experiments in Autobiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3805433 |
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| Authors | Marcia Jacobson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-67 |
| Publication date | 1987-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0576 |
| OpenAlex | W2082169807 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The Mask of Fiction: William Dean Howells's Experiments in Autobiography" traces Howells's efforts to solve two problems inherent in autobiography: the autobiographer must infuse his past self with enough solidity to be credible and must link the past self to the present narrating self. For Howells the solution lay in fictionalizing his narrator
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| Highly cited | No |
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