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Second-generation realist; or, Dunbar the naturalist.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
From February to August 1897, Paul Laurence Dunbar lectured and recited poems across England, capitalizing on his international stature as "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race," thanks in large part to William Howells's review of his poetry in 1896.1 During the tour's second month, in "the heart of a typical English home among the hills of Somerset," Dunbar began to write his first novel. The story, about a young man who resists his hometown's general insistence that his immoral ancestry predestines him for social failure, was so compelling that, over the course of only a "few" evenings, he wrote "sixteen thousand words in prose" (Martin and Hudson 442).
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- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the genres of dialect.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: African American Review Cohen, Michael June 22, 2007 700+ words
...This essay situates some of Dunbar's poems within late 19th-century...to demonstrate the relation of Dunbar's dialect poems as poems to...century. Critics like William Dean Howells associated Dunbar with a notion of black "folk...
- Paul Laurence Dunbar and the project of cultural reconstruction.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Scott-Childress, Reynolds J. June 22, 2007 700+ words
...seemingly impossible odds, Dunbar not only broke into the Century...distinction of publishing three of Dunbar's poems in the year before Howells wrote his infamous 1896 review...Thereafter, the Century championed Dunbar's career. The magazine published...
- Dunbar, the originator.(Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- Magazine article from: African American Review Braxton, Joanne M. June 22, 2007 700+ words
...even William Dean Howells, among others who...controversial, marks on Dunbar scholarship. And...observes, William Dean Howells ignored the local color-possibilities of Dunbar's "Humor and Dialect...favor of the myth of Dunbar's "pure blackness...authenticity, and even if Howells, ...
- William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Levinson, Martin H. April 1, 2006 700+ words
...of the relationship between Howells and Mark Twain (Twain called Howells "the boss" of literary critics...African-Americans like Paul Dunbar and women like Sarah Orne Jewett...columnist for Harper's Monthly, Howells influenced the tastes and values...
- Dunbar, Paul Laurence
- Reference information from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger January 1, 1995 700+ words
Dunbar, Paul Laurence (1872...Exposition at Chicago, but when Howells gave the second collection...and enthusiastic review, Dunbar's reputation was established...1896) with a preface by Howells. He became a popular reader...
- Factoring out race: the cultural context of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Bradley, David June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Herman Melville and William Dean Howells. 'Twas scholarship that taught...been writing about Paul Laurence Dunbar. My first Dunbar project was a treatment for a...and Harry Wonham. My second Dunbar project was a series of three...
- The politics of incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Hughes, Jennifer A. June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Fanatics have essentially eluded Dunbar readers and scholars for as...years after his death. (1) Dunbar scholarship has long been concerned...relationship with William Dean Howells as a powerful friend who preferred...dialect poetry, as well as Dunbar's general frustration with...
- Annetta B. Gomez-Jefferson. The Sage of Tawawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom,...
- Magazine article from: African American Review Fleissner, Robert F. June 22, 2003 700+ words
...which I then investigated); Howells reviewed Dunbar's work and thus notably assisted...achieving considerable status. The Dunbar connection with Ransom helps...though he disagreed with Howells's stress on Dunbar's "dialect poems." Much...