Davidson, Robert G. "The Master and the Dean: The Literary Criticism and Aesthetics of Henry James and William Dean Howells, 1859- 1897." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.7 (2004): 2490.

Evans, Brad. "Howellsian Chic: The Local Color of Cosmopolitanism." Elh 71.3 (2004): 775-812.

Freeman, Elizabeth. "The Whole(Y) Family: Economies of Kinship in the Progressive Era." American Literary History 16.4 (2004): 619-.

Karpinski, Joanne B. "When the Marriage of True Minds Admits Impediments: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells." Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contempories: Literary and Intellectual Contexts. Eds. Cynthia J. Davis and Denise D. Knight. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. Tuscaloosa, AL:U of Alabama P, 2004. 17-31.

Williams, Daniel. "From Hay-on-Wye to the Haymarket Riots: William Dean Howells and Wales." New Welsh Review: Wales's Literary Magazine in English 64 (2004): 49-57.

Ashton, Susanna. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

Beck, Avent Childress. "Civil War Veterans in the Fiction of Samuel Clemens, William Dean Howells, Henry Adams, and Henry James." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 64.5 (2003): 1650.

Edwards, Justin D. "'It Is the Race Instinct'!: Evolution, Eugenics, and Racial Ambiguity in William Dean Howells's Fiction." Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940. Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complexity. Eds. Lois A. Cuddy and Claire M. Roche. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP--Associated UP, 2003. 59-72.

Freeman, Kimberly. "The 'Enormous Fact' of American Life: Divorce in W. D. Howells' A Modern Instance." American Literary Realism 36.1 (2003): 65-85.

Goodman, Susan. Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins UP, 2003.

Love, Glen A. Practical Ecocriticism : Literature, Biology, and the Environment. Under the Sign of Nature. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003.

McMurray, Price. "'Take the Thing at Its Worst!': Realism and the Construction of Masculinity in Howells's The Shadow of a Dream." Conference of College Teachers of English Studies 68 (2003): 21-30.

Nerad, Julie Cary. "Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper." American Literature 75.4 (2003): 813-41.

Prettyman, Gib. "The Next Best Thing: Business and Commercial Inspiration in A Hazard of New Fortunes." American Literary Realism 35.2 (Winter 2003): 95-119.

Renfroe, Alicia Mischa. "Life, Leases on the Future: Legal Discourse in Selected Works of Louisa May Alcott, William Dean Howells, Henry James and Edith Wharton." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 63.12 (2003): 4316.

Rennick, Andrew. "'A Good War Story': The Civil War, Substitution, and the Labor Crisis in Howells' A Hazard of New Fortunes." American Literary Realism 35.3 (2003): 247-.

Stretch, Cynthia. "Illusions of a Public, Locations of Conflict: Feeling Like Populace in William Dean Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes." American Literary Realism 35.3 (2003): 233-.

Susina, Jan. "The Center of Centerburg: Robert Mccloskey's Regionalist Image of Boyhood." The Image of the Child. Ed. Sylvia Patterson Iskander. Battle Creek, MI:Children's Lit. Assn.,1991, 279-86.

Yang, Seokwon. "Howells's Realism Reconsidered: Representing the Unrepresentable in A Hazard of New Fortunes." Journal of English Language and Literature/Yongo Yongmunhak 49.4 (2003): 845-70.

Borus, Daniel H. "The Strange Career of American Bohemia." American Literary History 14.2 (2002): 376-88.

Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice : Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925." Diss., 2002.

Knoper, Randall. "American Literary Realism and Nervous 'Reflexion'." American Literature 74.4 (2002): 715-45.

Lanum George, C. "Setting the Hook of Realism : A Study of the Early Career of William Dean Howells." 2002.

Ludwig, Sâami. Pragmatist Realism: The Cognitive Paradigm in American Realist Texts. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 2002.

Rubin, Lance Allen. "Remembering Is Hell": William Dean Howells, Realism, and the American Memory Crisis. microform, 2002.

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr. "Anguish of a New York Liberal." New York Review of Books 49.2 (2002): 39-40.

Schweighauser, Philipp. "'You Must Make Less Noise in Here, Mister Schouler': Acoustic Profiling in American Realism." Studies in American Fiction 30.1 (2002): 85-102.

Abeln, Paul Joseph. "William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism." Washington U, 2001.

Ashton, Susanna. "Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and the Collaborative Search for Coherence." Studies in the Novel 33.1 (2001): 51-79.

Barrish, Phillip. American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Chapter One is called "William Dean Howells and the Roots of Realist Taste."

Barton, John Cyril. "Howells's Rhetoric of Realism: The Economy of Pain(T) and Social Complicity in the Rise of Silas of Lapham and the Minister's Charge." Studies in American Fiction 29.2 (2001): 159-87.

Daugherty, Sarah B. "'The Home-Towners': Howells the Critic Vs. Howells the Novelist." American Literary Realism 34.1 (2001): 66-72.

Davis, Scott Christopher. "Telling Tales: Ideology and the American Observer, 1890-1896." U of California Santa Barbara, 2001.

Engeman, Thomas S. "Religion and Politics the American way: The Exemplary William Dean Howells." The Review of Politics, Notre Dame; Winter 2001; Vol. 63, Iss. 1; pg. 107, 22 pgs.

Handa, Sangeeta. Realism in American Fiction : Contribution of William Dean Howells. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2001.

Howard, June, foreword. The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001.

Howard, June. Publishing the Family. New Americanists. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001.

Ludwig, Sèami. "The Realist Trickster as Legba: Howells's Capitalist Critique." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 34.1 (2001): 173-84.

Marovitz, Sanford E. "Melville among the Realists: W. B. Howells and the Writing of Billy Budd." American Literary Realism 34.1 (2001): 29-46.

Prettyman, Gib. "The Serial Illustrations of A Hazard of New Fortunes." Resources in American Literary Studies 27.2 (Fall 2001): 179-195.

Sorrentino, Paul. "A Re-Examination of the Relationship between Stephen Crane and W. D. Howells." American Literary Realism 34.1 (2001): 47-65.

Stratman, Gregory J. Speaking for Howells : Charting the Dean's Career through the Language of His Characters. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001.

Witherow, Jean Ann. "Kate Chopin's Contribution to Realism and Naturalism: Reconsiderations of W. D. Howells, Maupassant, and Flaubert." Louisiana State U, 2001

Witschi, Nicolas. Traces of Gold: California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2001). Discusses Howells throughout, including his relationships with Harte and Twain and his influence on Austin and even Raymond Chandler. Chapter Three is called "'Why, have you got the Atlantic Monthly out here?' W. D. Howells, Realism, and the Idea of the American West"; it examines the extent to which Howells valued the American West as an indicator of things simple, natural, and honest.

Bramen, Carrie Tirado. "The Urban Picturesque and the Spectacle of Americanization." American Quarterly 52 (September 2000): 444-477. Abstract Available

Bramen, Carrie Tirado."William Dean Howells and The Failure of The Urban Picturesque." New England Quarterly 73.1 (March 2000): 82-99. 

Diller, Christopher. "'Fiction in Color': Domesticity, Aestheticism, and the Visual Arts in the Criticism and Fiction of William Dean Howells." Nineteenth-Century Literature 55.3 (2000): 369-98.

Rohrbach, Augusta. "'You're a natural-born literary man': Becoming William Dean Howells, Culture Maker and Cultural Marker." The New England Quarterly 73.4 (Dec 2000): 625-654. 

Thompson, Graham. "'And that paint is a thing that will bear looking into': The Business of Sexuality in The Rise of Silas Lapham."  American Literary Realism 33.1 (Fall 2000). Abstract Available

Howells, William Dean. Pebbles, Monochromes, and Other Modern Poems, 1891-1916. Ed. Edwin Cady. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000. 
---. The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors. Ed. June Howard.Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2001.
---. Venetian Life. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2001.

Crowley, John W. The Dean of American Letters : The Late Career of William Dean Howells. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999.

 Crowley, John W. "Howells in The Heath." New England Quarterly 72.1 (1999): 89-101. 

Dooley, Patrick K. "Ethical Exegesis in William Dean Howells." Papers on Language and Literature 35.4 (Fall 1999): 363+.Abstract Available

Fabi, M. Giulia. "Reconstructing Literary Genealogies: Frances E. W. Harper's and William Dean Howells's Race Novels." Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen Kilcup. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. 48-66. 

Goldman-Price, Irene. "In this particular instance I want you": The Booster As Mentor in A Hazard of New Fortunes." American Literary Mentors. Ed. Irene Goldman-Price and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

Gray, Melinda Gilbert. "Imagining Language and Belonging: Wales, England, and America, 1850-1910." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A, 59, no. 10 (1999 Apr): p. 3810

Petrie, Paul.  "'To Make Them Acquainted with One Another': Jewett, Howells, and the Dual Aesthetic of Deephaven." Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. 99-122.

Stone, Susan M. "Transcendental Realism: The Thoreauvian Presence in Howells' A Modern Instance." Studies in American Fiction 27.2 (1999 Autumn): 149-57. Abstract Available

Todd, Jeff. "Lapham-The Mineral Paint Man." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 12.4 (1999 Fall): 19-23.

Ackerman, Alan. "The Right to Privacy: William Dean Howells and the Rise of Dramatic Realism." American Literary Realism 30.1 (Fall 1997): 1-19.

Adams, Jon-K. "Moral Opposition in Nietzsche and Howells." Nietzsche in American Literature and Thought. Ed. Manfred Putz. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995. 65-78.

Alkana, Joseph. The Social Self: Hawthorne, Howells, William James, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.

Anesko, Michael. Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells. New York: Oxford U P, 1997.

Arms, George, Mary Beth Whidden, and Gary Scharnhorst. Staging Howells: Plays and Correspondence with Lawrence Barrett. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1994.

Bender, Bert. The Descent of Love: Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection in American Fiction, 1871-1926. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Berkove, Lawrence I. "'A Difficult Case': W. D. Howells's Impression of Mark Twain." Studies in Short Fiction 31.4 (1994): 607-15.

Blackwood, John Thomas. "Reading the Event in American Literature: Hawthorne, Howells, DeLillo." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.5 (1995): 1763A.

Carter, Everett. "Realists and Jews." Studies in American Fiction 22.1 (1994): 81-91.

Clymer, Jeffory A. "Race and the Protocol of American Citizenship in William Dean Howells's An Imperative Duty." American Literary Realism 30.3 (Spring 1998): 31-52.

Corkin, Stanley. Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.

Crisler, Jesse S. "Howells and Norris: A Backward Glance Taken." Nineteenth-Century Literature 52.2 (1997): 232-51.

Crowley, John W. "Giving a Character: Howellsian Realism in The Landlord at Lion's Head." Harvard Library Bulletin 5.1 (1994): 53-66.

Crowley, John W. "The Portrait of a Lady and The Rise of Silas Lapham: The Company They Kept." Pizer, Donald (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP, 1995. 117-37.

Crowley, John W. "The Unsmiling Aspects of Life: A Hazard of New Fortunes." Barbour, James (ed.); Quirk, Tom (ed. & introd.). Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1996. 78-109.

Daugherty, Sarah B. "'The Dream of Duty Tormenting Us All': The World of Chance and the Decline of Realism." Harvard Library Bulletin 5.1 (1994): 45-52.

Daugherty, Sarah B. "An Imperative Duty: Howells and White Male Anxiety." American Literary Realism 30.3 (Spring 1998): 53-64.

Daugherty, Sarah B. "William Dean Howells and Mark Twain: The Realism War as a Campaign That Failed." American Literary Realism 29.1 (1996): 12-28.

De Vos, Martine Louise. "The 'Imperative Duty' of the 'Serious' Artist: The Literary Politics of William Dean Howells and Ezra Pound." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.5 (1995): 1776A.

Duffy, John-Charles. "I Would Not Presume to Decide': Gender and Ambivalence in Howells's Indian Summer." American LIterary Realism 30.1 (Fall 1997): 20-33.

Habegger, Alfred. "From Painful Cult to Painful Realism: Annie Ogle's A Lost Love and W. D. Howells's Ben Halleck and Penelope Lapham." American Realism and the Canon. Eds. Tom Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994. 170-89.

Harmon, Charles. "A Hazard of New Fortunes and the Reproduction of Liberalism." Studies in American Fiction 25 (Autumn 1997): 183-195.

Hedges, Warren. "Howells's 'Wretched Fetishes': Character, Realism, and Other Modern Instances."Texas Studies in Literature and Language 38.1 (Spring 1996): 26-50.

Henwood, Dawn. "Complications of Heroinism: Gender, Power, and the Romance of Self-Sacrifice in The Rise of Silas Lapham." American Literary Realism 30.3 (Spring 1998): 14-30.

Howells, Polly H. "Mildred Howells as the Father's Daughter: Living within His Lines." Harvard Library Bulletin 5.1 (1994): 9-28.

Howells, William Dean. Selected Short Stories of William Dean Howells. Ed. Ruth Bardon. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 1997.

Jacobsen, Marcia. "Howells' Literary Friends and Acquaintances: An Autobiography through Others." American Literary Realism 27.1 (1994): 59-73.

Karpinski, Joanne B. "When the Marriage of True Minds Admits Impediments: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and William Dean Howells." Patrons and Protegees: Gender, Friendship, and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Shirley Marchalonis. The Douglass Series on Women's Lives and the Meaning of Gender. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994. 212-34.

Knadler, Stephen P. "Strangely Re-Abolitionized: William Dean Howells and Racial Repersuasion." Arizona Quarterly 53 (Spring 1997): .

Lapp, Peter Charles. "Texts, Traits and Character in Cooper and Howells: A Cognitive and Historical Approach." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.4 (1995): 1356A.

Li, Hsin-Ying. "For Love or Money: Courtship and Class Conflict in Howells' The Rise of Silas Lapham." Studies in American Fiction 24.1 (1996): 101-21.

Li, Hsin-Ying. "Seeking the Center: The Provincials in the Novels of W. D. Howells, Theodore Dreiser, and Edith Wharton." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 58.7 (1998): 2654-55.

Love, Glen A. "Slouching towards Altruria: Evolution, Ecology, and William Dean Howells." Harvard Library Bulletin 5.1 (1994): 29-44.

McBride, Christopher. "Howells's A Hazard of New Fortunes." Explicator 53.1 (1994): 37-38.

McElrath Jr., Joseph R. "W. D. Howells and Race: Charles W. Chesnutt's Disappointment of the Dean." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51.4 (March 1997): 474-500.

McGuire, Ian Read. "A Song for Occupations: Economic History and Literary and Intellectual Change in America, 1830-1910." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 57.10 (1997): 4370.

McNamara, Kevin R. "Silas Lapham in Olomouc." College Literature 23.2 (1996): 157-69.

McWilliams, Jim. "An 1890 Interview with W. D. Howells." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 9.1 (1996): 21-24.

Messina, Lynn Marie. "Freedom or Anarchy: The Capital-Labor Struggle in William Dean Howell's A Hazard of New Fortunes." CEA Critic 58.1 (Fall 1995): 60+.

Murphy, Joseph Claude. "Exposing the Modern: World's Fairs and American Literary Culture, 1853-1907." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 58.7 (1998): 2657-58.

Nettels, Elsa. "'Inherited Puritanism': The Legacy of Calvinism in the Fiction of William Dean Howells." The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era. Eds. Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson and Carol J. Singley. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1997. 36-52.

Nettels, Elsa. Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton, and Cather. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1997.

O'Hara, Daniel T. Review. Selected Literary Criticism of William Dean Howells, edited by Ulrich Halfmann, Christoph K. Lohmann, Don L. Cook, and David J Nordloh. American Literary Realism 27.3 (Spring 1995): 87+.

Parrish, Timothy L. "Haymarket and Hazard: The Lonely Politics of William Dean Howells." Journal of American Culture 17.4 (1994): 23-32.

Parrish, Timothy L. "Howells Untethered: The Dean and 'Diversity.'" Studies in American Fiction 23.1 (Spring 1995): 101-17.

Pennell, Melissa McFarland. "The Mentor's Charge: Literary Mentoring in Howell's Criticism and Fiction." In American Literary Mentors.Ed. and introd. Irene C. Goldman-Price, Irene C.and Melissa McFarland Pennell. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1999. 34-46.

Petrie, Paul. "'Conscience and Purpose': The Legacy of Howellsian Social Commitment in American Fiction." vol. 58 no. 4. 1997 Oct. DAI No: DA9730894.  PAGES:  1283

Peyser, Thomas.  Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism. Durham, N.C. :  Duke University Press, 1998.

Pizer, Donald. ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism, Howells to London. NY: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Prescott, Jeryl Jenifer. "Imperfect Gentlemen and Non-True Women: Racism, Classism, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Ideals in Novels by Henry James, William Dean Howells, and Charles Chesnutt." Dissertation Abstracts International 57.3 (1996): 1141A.

Pryor, John Clark. "A Violation of Sanctities: The Interrogation of the Popular Press in the Novels of Howells, James, Wharton, and Dreiser." Dissertation Abstracts International 55.3 (1994): 568A.

Rachman, Stephen. "Reading Cities: Devotional Seeing in the Nineteenth Century." American Literary History 9.4 (1997): 653-75.

Russo, John Paul. "From Italophilia to Italophobia: Representations of Italian Americans in the Early Gilded Age." Differentia: Review of Italian Thought 6-7 (1994): 45-75.

Schwarzer, Andrew. "Cheering with Eyes Averted: Businessmen and Speculators in the Novels of Howells, Norris, and Dreiser." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 57.12 (1997): 5154.

Spears, Timothy. "'Something More Than a Drummer's Interest': Commercial Realism in The Rise of  Silas Lapham." Prospects 22 (1997): 153-172.

Stratman, Gregory Joseph. "The Literary Language of William Dean Howells in Theory and Practice: The Evolution of a Career." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 58.6 (1997): 2213.

Swett, Katherine Barrett. "Improper Places: Scenery Fiction in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Constance Woolson, and Henry James." Dissertation Abstracts International 56.6 (1995): 2241A-42A.

Thomas, Brook. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract. Berkeley: U of California P, 1997.

Thomas, Tracey Hoffman. "Courtship, Marriage, and Community in the Novels of Anthony Trollope and William Dean Howells." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 56.11 (1996): 4410.

Westbrook, Matthew David. "Invisible Countries: The Poetics of the American Information Commodity, 1891-1919." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A 58.2 (1997): 459.

Wonham, Henry B. "Writing Realism, Policing Consciousness: Howells and the Black Body." American Literature 67.4 (December 1995): 701-24.