Robert Herrick The Development Of A Novelist - Blake Nevius

Blake Neviuss Robert Herrick: The Development Of A Novelist Offers A Rigorously Contextualized Reassessment Of An American Realist Whose Reputation Straddles The Interregnum Between Howells And The Moderns. Eschewing Formal Biography, Nevius Reconstructs Herricks Artistic Formation Through A Dense Weave Of Memoir Variants, Archival Traces (municipal And University Records, Correspondence), And Close Readings That Track The Transmutation Of Lived Incident Into Narrative Design. The Studys Throughline Is Methodological: Nevius Demonstrates How Herricks Compulsive Recourse To Autobiographical Matterfamily Psychodramas, Chicagos Academic And Commercial Milieus, And A Gallery Of Recognizably Roman--clef Portraitsboth Powered And Constrained His Fiction.