| Contents |
"The last letter of all": Reese, Stedman, and poetry in late-nineteenth-century America / Robert J. Scholnick -- The mentor's charge: literary mentoring in Howell's criticism and fiction / Melissa McFarland Pennell -- "In this particular instance I want you": the booster as mentor in A hazard of new fortunes / Irene C. Goldman-Price -- Henry James's ghostly mentors / Cheryl B. Torsney -- Negative mentorship and the case of Alice James / Esther F. Lanigan -- Female models and male mentors in Wharton's early fiction / Julie Olin-Ammentorp -- Edith Wharton and partnership: The house of mirth, the decoration of houses and "copy" / Carol J. Singley -- Meeting of minds: Edith Wharton as mentor and guide / Helen Killoran -- "Someone young and teachable": dimensions of mentoring in the fiction of Willa Cather / Deborah Carlin -- "Efforts of affection": mentorship and friendship in Moore and Bishop / Margaret Wooster Freeman -- Eudora Welty: the silent mentors / Jean Frantz Blackall. |
