The Rise of Silas Lapham

The Rise of Silas Lapham Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885.
  • Bliss, William D.P., editor. The Encyclopedia of Social Reforms, 3rd ed., 1897, p. 698.

  • Goodman, Susan, and Carl Dawson. William Dean Howells: A Writer’s Life. University of California Press, 2005.

  • Lawson, Andrew. Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism. Oxford University Press, 2012.

  • Lynn, Kenneth S. William Dean Howells: An American Life. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1970.

  • Vanderbilt, Kermit. Introduction. The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, Penguin, 1986, pp. vii–xxviii.

  • Vanderbilt, Kermit. "Silas Lapham and Anti-semitism." The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, Penguin, 1986, pp. 366–368.

  • Campbell, Donna M.. "About W.D. Howells." The William Dean Howells Society. 2001. 6/29/2020. <https://howellssociety.wordpress.com/biography/howells-biography/>.
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