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Romney : and other new works about Philadelphia
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Romney : and other new works about Philadelphia

著者: Owen Wister; James Butler
出版商: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001.
版本/格式:   图书 : 小说 : 州政府或者省政府刊物 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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"Even in its incomplete state - nearly fifty thousand words - Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, 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  再读一些...
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类型/形式: Fiction
材料类型: 小说, 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物
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所有的著者/提供者: Owen Wister; James Butler
ISBN: 0271021217 9780271021218
OCLC号码: 45714897
注意: Wister's unfinished and previously unpublished novel about Philadelphia.
Includes index.
描述: lvi, 259 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
内容: 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.
责任: Owen Wister ; edited by James A. Butler.

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"Even in its incomplete state - nearly fifty thousand words - Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, 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. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption." "Wister's analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper classes is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation."--BOOK JACKET.

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