NETTEL

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NETTELNot Enough Time to Enjoy Life (two-income family)
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By some bizarre twist of logic, many Nettels revel in the scheduling frenzy," he said.
Meet the Nettels, the families with 'not enough time to enjoy life'
The opposition between the standpoint of Howells the liberal critic and Howells the conservative novelist is then shown in reverse in the case of Henry James whose fiction, Nettels avers, depicts 'women who surpass men in the power to initiate and control action' (p.
Language and Gender in American Fiction: Howells, James, Wharton and Cather
Ironically, Howells questions upper society's birthright to top the hierarchy of cultural tastes no more than Silas does that of lifestyles; the author may have a few suggestions on their literary preferences, but in general his narrator identifies with the Brahmins in artistic judgments and, as Elsa Nettels notices, in the use of language.
For love or money: courtship and class conflict in Howells' 'The Rise of Silas Lapham.' (William Dean Howells)
Elsa Nettels remarks that "in `Ship Island,' as in many of Spencer's stories, sudden inexplicable occurrences give an eerie quality to the sharply defined scenes and characters.
Emotional distance as narrative strategy in Elizabeth Spencer's fiction
Those who have described the effects of this felicity comprise a short list: George Arms (travel sketches), Elsa Nettels (the fiction), this reviewer (literary memoirs) and lamentably few others.
Thomas Wortham, editor, The Early Prose Writings of William Dean Howells, 1853-1861
Elsa Nettels says "the spirit of Yanko, his piety, his attachment to the language and the traditions of his homeland [.
Amy Foster and the blindfolded woman
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