| Description |
1 online resource (lvi, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Owen Wister: A Chronology -- xix -- Romney / Owen Wister -- Appendix I. Wister's Fragments of Texts Related to Romney -- 211 -- "Designs: The Star Gazers" -- 211 -- Draft for a Possible Preface -- 213 -- Two Revisions of Chapter I -- 215 -- Appendix II. Wister's Philadelphia Works Related to Romney -- 219 -- From "The Keystone Crime: Pennsylvania's Graft-Cankered Capitol" -- 220 -- "Address Read at the Memorial Meeting of Horace Howard Furness" -- 224 -- "Address Delivered before the Logan Improvement League" -- 234 |
| Summary |
Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of "no social position" who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social change -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century -- Fiction
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Social classes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century -- Fiction
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- General.
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Social conditions
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Manners and customs
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Social change
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Social classes
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
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| Subject |
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Butler, James, 1945-
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| ISBN |
9780271030906 |
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0271030909 |
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9780271021218 |
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0271021217 |
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