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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
An Unpublished Reminiscence Of James Fenimore Cooper, Constantine Evans
An Unpublished Reminiscence Of James Fenimore Cooper, Constantine Evans
The Courier
A reminiscence of James Fenimore Cooper, written in 1889, lies among the papers of William Mather (1802-1890) in the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University. It is written in pencil on two sheets of paper, one of which is the blank back of a Herkimer County newspaper supplement of 1889. Each sheet is folded to form a sort of booklet. Mather's text, as it stands, is disjointed and marred by occasionally confused syntax, illegible words, and repetitions. A series of false starts, of beginnings not decided upon, occurs before something of a narrative coherence is achieved. Material obviously intended …
Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin
Edward Fitzgerald And Bernard Barton: An Unsparing Friendship, Jeffrey P. Martin
The Courier
This article details the correspodence between the "Quaker poet" Bernard Barton and famous literary figures of his era, especially his friend and fellow writer Edward FitzGerald. The source of the article is the Alfred McKinley Terhune Collection, found in Syracuse University's Special Collections. Barton's letters, which are often lively and full of fresh opinion, are (thankfully) still valued today, both for the subjects they deal with and for the people they address. As one critic has stated, "Barton never considered his own letters as literary productions. Rather he felt that his poetry was his sole claim to literary fame." It …
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Three), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
This is the third in a series of articles on the past and future of punctuation. The years under focus here are crucial ones, for they include the invention of the printing press and the shift it caused in the human response to the written word.
Toils And Perils Of Scientific Publishing In The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries, Eileen Snyder
Toils And Perils Of Scientific Publishing In The Late Eighteenth And Early Nineteenth Centuries, Eileen Snyder
The Courier
It is perhaps not realized by the modem armchair naturalist what hardships attended his 'explorer naturalist' predecessor in the early 1800s. In the George Arents Research Library there is an intriguing—indeed, quite outstanding—group of volumes, landmarks in the history of the natural sciences, by American, British, and French botanists, ornithologists, ichthyologists, entomologists, and herpetologists. A study of the various prefaces, introductions, and accompanying advertisements reveals the overwhelming problems that not only attended every fact ,gathering expedition, but seemed as well to plague every stage in the publication of the new materials. Nevertheless, undaunted, these explorers were inspired to do what …