William Dean Howells (1837-1920), autodidact from the farmlands of Ohio, was a realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of America

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This edited collection deals with dream as a literary trope and as a source of creativity in women’s writings. It gathers essays spanning a time period from t