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John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott
John Fowles, James Anthony Froude, And The Sociology Of Innovation And Traditionalism In The British Novel, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Discusses the early career and later development of the twentieth-century British novelist John Fowles, and compares the fictional technique of his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) with that of the Victorian writer James Anthony Froude's novella The Lieutenant's Daughter (1847). First presented at the Modern Language Association of America, annual convention, New York, December 1979.
Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten, Patrick G. Scott
Victorian Writers, Remembered & Forgotten, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Based on a library exhibition at the University of South Carolina, summarizes the career and writings of many well-known British Victorian novelists, poets and non-fiction writers (including Dickens, Thackeray, Carlyle, Darwin, Tennyson, E.B. and Robert Browning, the Brontes, George Eliot, R.L.Stevenson), in contrast with the achievements of lesser-known writers also represented in the library's special collections (including G. W. M. Reynolds, Elizabeth Sewell, William North, Rhoda Broughton, and George Douglas Brown). Originally developed as an exhibition for the 2008 meeting of the Victorians Institute.
Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson And The Lamarckian Legacy Of 1820s Edinburgh, Patrick G. Scott
Comparative Anatomies: Darwin, Eliot, Stevenson And The Lamarckian Legacy Of 1820s Edinburgh, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Explores the ways in which selected Victorian writers critiqued, repressed, or caricatured the underground influence of the earlier French biological theorist Lamarck. Works discussed include George Eliot's Middlemarch and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. First presented at the Sixth International Scott Conference, Eugene, Oregon, 1999.
"I Had Never Before ... Heard Of Him At All": William Gilmore Simms, The Elusive William North, And A Lost Simms Novel About American Authorship, Patrick G. Scott
"I Had Never Before ... Heard Of Him At All": William Gilmore Simms, The Elusive William North, And A Lost Simms Novel About American Authorship, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
Examines a review by the antebellum Southern novelist William Gilmore Simms of a new book by the English writer William North (1825-1854), North's posthumous novel The Slave of the Lamp (1855), discusses possible reasons for Simms's hostility to North such as North's links to the New York Bohemians and his anti-professionalism, and explores what the review reveals about a now-lost Simms novel, with the same title, that gave a different perspective on mid-19th century changes in the conditions and profession of authorship in America.
Happiest Days: The Public Schools In English Fiction, By Jeffrey Richards, Patrick G. Scott
Happiest Days: The Public Schools In English Fiction, By Jeffrey Richards, Patrick G. Scott
Patrick Scott
A review of Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, by Jeffrey Richards