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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Alice Munro: An Appreciation, Michael Boyd
The Irish Odyssey Of James Mccarroll, Michael Peterman
The Irish Odyssey Of James Mccarroll, Michael Peterman
Bridgewater Review
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Masterpiece Or Racist Trash? Bridgewater Students Enter The Debate Over Huckleberry Finn, Barbara Apstein
Masterpiece Or Racist Trash? Bridgewater Students Enter The Debate Over Huckleberry Finn, Barbara Apstein
Bridgewater Review
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The Novelist As Historian, Michael Boyd
The American Struggle For Identity In 18th Century Newspaper Verse, Ann Brunjes
The American Struggle For Identity In 18th Century Newspaper Verse, Ann Brunjes
Bridgewater Review
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Contemporary English Perspectives On The American Civil War: Rare Documents, Sylvia Larson
Contemporary English Perspectives On The American Civil War: Rare Documents, Sylvia Larson
Bridgewater Review
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Mark Twain's Roughing It: A Humorist's Darker Side, Joseph Yokelson
Mark Twain's Roughing It: A Humorist's Darker Side, Joseph Yokelson
Bridgewater Review
Roughing It was based rather roughly on a period of Twain’s life that began in 1861, when Twain went west with his brother Orion. Orion had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada territory with the help of friend who had a friend in Lincoln’s new cabinet. Twain had just faded quietly out of the Confederate army after suffering from boils and a sprained ankle and never firing a shot. For a while out west, Twain prospected for silver around Virginia City; then for about two years he was a reporter for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise. In 1864 he drifted …
The Timely Humor Of Stephen Leacock, Harold Ridlon
The Timely Humor Of Stephen Leacock, Harold Ridlon
Bridgewater Review
Stephen Leacock, one of the finest humorists of this century deserves reassessment. Born in 1869 in Swansmore, Hampshire, England, and resettled with his family on a farm near Lake Simcoe, Ontario, at age six, he survived the rigors of frontier life in a family of twelve children, all reared by a mother of breeding, hardihood, and humaneness, and deserted by a profligate, Micawber-like but insensitive father. Through his mother's encouragement and meager family endowment, he attended Upper Canada College, a private secondary school in Toronto. Leacock's best known and most widely used text, Elements of Political Science (1906), earned him …
Rediscovering James T. Farrell, Charles Fanning
Rediscovering James T. Farrell, Charles Fanning
Bridgewater Review
No major American writer has been worse served by criticism than James T. Farrell. After the publication in 1935 of his first fictional series, the Studs Lonigan trilogy, Farrell labored for four decades under an unjust and unfounded critical accusation. During these years, many influential critics dealt with his fiction as it appeared by mechanical citation of a party line which ran as follows: "James T. Farrell is that sad case, a one-book writer. Studs Lonigan is credible fiction, albeit in the limiting and dated naturalistic mode pioneered by Theodore Dreiser. But his subsequent novels have been obsessive reworkings of …