Phantom books sought.

[Culturist]

Good evening everyone,

I have been looking for a book I once held in my hands in a now closed second-hand bookshop in my home town for a long time now. As I can only slightly remember it having been a novel that had anything to do with Boston and was likely to have been written by a(ny) nineteenth-century American author in the literary style of (social) realism or perhaps naturalism, I would like to ask if someone has got a clue for me It might as well have been a sequal (either written by Howells himself or someone else) to The Rise of Silas Lapham, first published in 1885, but the author(s) might just as well have been Holmes or Wolfe.

Besides, I have been looking for "American Aestheticism", a book I once held in my hands in a second-hand bookshop, dealing with the American Renaissance in general and in particular with the influence of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature and philosophy on it. Unfortunately, I have not yet been able to re-discover the book anywhere on the internet. Just as it has been the case with a book on Henry James, perhaps having been a biography, published by OUP New York, whose title and author I have forgotten since I had last seen it offered in some second-hand bookshop some years ago.


Thank you in advance for your help.

[antje]

As to Henry James: Did you look up here: http://www.eurobuch.com/ ?

As to the first book: Information is somewhat vague here. You should give us some more.

As to "American Aestheticism": I can´t help you here, I'm sorry.

BTW: A heartily welcome here at booklooker-forum!

But do you take your signature seriously?? German language should help - most of the members here are German natives Do you speak German yourself?

[terracotta]

As to Henry James: Did you look up here: http://www.eurobuch.com/ ?

I'd rather suggest http://us.bookbutler.com/do/showPowerBookSearch or http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?hl=en because you can specify the publisher in these search engines which is not possible in the one you name.