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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
The Life And Legacy Of Edwin Greenlaw: “Teacher And Scholar”, Mykelin Higham
The Life And Legacy Of Edwin Greenlaw: “Teacher And Scholar”, Mykelin Higham
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Drawing from recently available archival documents, this paper traces the life, works, and influence of Edwin Greenlaw (1874–1931), a notable scholar of Spenser and the English Renaissance and a beloved and influential teacher. Information from a biographical manuscript authored by his brother is supplemented with contextual history of literary education in turn-of-the-century America and the debates between literary historians and critics of the early twentieth century in order to trace Greenlaw’s model impact as both a practitioner and leader. His exegesis of Spenser’s political allegory, his numerous edited literature textbooks for the general student, and his activism for a more …
Comparative Literary History, Michael J. Griffin Ii
Comparative Literary History, Michael J. Griffin Ii
Criticism
Review of Modernist Futures: Innovation and Inheritance in the Contemporary Novel by David James. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. 223. $95.00 cloth.
Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
Collecting To The Core: American Crime Fiction, Michael Adams
Publications and Research
Overview of key secondary works analyzing American crime fiction: general works, works dealing with specific periods, works dealing with crime fiction by women and African Americans.
The Will To Change: The Role Of Self-Consciousness In The Literature Of Metamorphosis, Michael Giovanniello
The Will To Change: The Role Of Self-Consciousness In The Literature Of Metamorphosis, Michael Giovanniello
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge
Missing Immortality: The Case Of Melesina Trench (A Neglected, Celebrated, Dismissed And Rediscovered Woman Poet Of The Long Eighteenth Century), Katharine Kittredge
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830
No abstract provided.
Henry Thoreau's Debt To Society: A Micro Literary History, Laura J. Dwiggins
Henry Thoreau's Debt To Society: A Micro Literary History, Laura J. Dwiggins
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This thesis examines Henry David Thoreau’s relationships with New England-based authors, publishers, and natural scientists, and their influences on his composition and professional development. The study highlights Thoreau’s collaboration with figures such as John Thoreau, Jr., William Ellery Channing II, Horace Greeley, and a number of correspondents and natural scientists. The study contends that Thoreau was a sociable and professionally competent author who relied not only on other major Transcendentalists, but on members from an array of intellectual communities at all stages of his career.
Arbitrary Power, Spencer Hall
Arbitrary Power, Spencer Hall
Spencer Hall
Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics by William Keach is reviewed. The book is praised for its assessment of the language and style of Romantic poetry in light of history.
Country Of Illusion: Imagined Geographies And Transnational Connections In F. Scott Fitzgerald's America, Charles Mitchell Frye Iii
Country Of Illusion: Imagined Geographies And Transnational Connections In F. Scott Fitzgerald's America, Charles Mitchell Frye Iii
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The two decades between World Wars I and II were a remarkably isolationist, xenophobic period in the history of American politics and culture. In the era’s literature, however, some US authors repurposed regional writing as a medium for rethinking conservative nationalism and for imagining their country’s place in the emerging global community. F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose career successes and failures mirrored the parabolic national pattern of Boom and Bust, was one such author. Though his works have seldom been interpreted through a regionalist lens, Fitzgerald lived in and wrote about every major American section, often planting tropes of transregional and …
The Authority Of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism In Whitman And Henry James, Lindsey Jaynes
The Authority Of Difference: Culturally Effected Realism In Whitman And Henry James, Lindsey Jaynes
Honors Papers
This project examines the boundaries and definitions of 19th-century American realism in relation to the critical and literary writings of Walt Whitman and Henry James.
Thinking Back Through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare In Orlando And A Room Of One's Own, Maureen Gallagher
Thinking Back Through Our Fathers: Woolf Reading Shakespeare In Orlando And A Room Of One's Own, Maureen Gallagher
English Theses
This thesis is a feminist interpretation of Virginia Woolf’s treatment of Shakespeare in Orlando and A Room of One’s Own. Although Woolf’s admiration of Shakespeare is evident in both texts, Woolf’s identification of Shakespeare as a gender-neutral or feminist-friendly writer must be qualified. Woolf presents Shakespeare as a worthy but incomplete artistic model, for his work does not explore women with adequate complexity. In these texts, Woolf partially “writes with” Shakespeare, but she also uses his literary works and his status as a cultural icon both to critique the conventional treatment of women as limited by the male perspective and …
In Defense Of Genius: Howells And The Limits Of Literary History, Claudia Stokes
In Defense Of Genius: Howells And The Limits Of Literary History, Claudia Stokes
English Faculty Research
In early 1886, William Dean Howells fell into an ugly public debate with the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman. Carried out in the pages of Harper’s Monthly and the New Princeton Review, this dispute started as a disagreement about the origins of literary craftsmanship but quickly escalated into a heated epistemological squabble about the limits of historical knowledge. It began in March of that year, when Howells gave a mixed review to Stedman’s Poets of America (1885), a history of American poetry. Though Howells conceded the importance of Stedman’s contribution to the emerging discipline of American literary history, …
Anne Hutchinson And The Economics Of Antinomian Selfhood In Colonial New England, Michelle Burnham
Anne Hutchinson And The Economics Of Antinomian Selfhood In Colonial New England, Michelle Burnham
English
If American literary histories so often begin with the New England Puritans, it is because histories with such a starting point are able to tell an appealing national story of coherent community and religious freedom. So, at any rate, suggests T. H. Breen when he notes that beginning the national narrative instead with John Smith and the Virginia colony would require telling a far less pleasing tale of American greed, domination, and exploitation. Philip Gura has likewise wondered how Sacvan Bercovitch's model of an "American self," formulated from exclusively Puritan New England materials, might be complicated by John Smith's mercantilism. …
Breaking And Entering: An Italian American's Literary Odyssey, Fred L. Gardaphé
Breaking And Entering: An Italian American's Literary Odyssey, Fred L. Gardaphé
Publications and Research
In this personalized account, Gardaphe presents audiences with his own-first person story of the meaning of ethnic identity in America. Gardaphe relates his story of how his own adventures, on the streets of Chicago and in the libraries and school, shaped his views on becoming an intellectual and fashioned his career as a writer and professor of Italian American culture.
Loopholes Of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative And The Critique Of Agency In Foucault, Michelle Burnham
Loopholes Of Resistance: Harriet Jacobs' Slave Narrative And The Critique Of Agency In Foucault, Michelle Burnham
English
Located in the exact center of Harriet Jacobs' i86r slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Shve Girl, is a chapter entitled "The Loophole of Retreat. " The chapter's title refers to the tiny crawlspace above her grandmother's shed, where Jacobs hides for seven years in an effort to escape her master's persecution and the "peculiar institution" of slavery which authorizes that persecution. This chapter's central location, whether the result of accident or design, would seem to suggest its structural significance within Jacobs' narrative. Yet its central location is by no means obvious, for "The Loophole of Retreat" goes …
Some Inferences About Literary History From The John Milton Collection In The Margaret I. King Library, John T. Shawcross
Some Inferences About Literary History From The John Milton Collection In The Margaret I. King Library, John T. Shawcross
The Kentucky Review
No abstract provided.
An Evaluation Of The Place Occupied By The Greek Pastoral Elegy From Its Earliest Appearance To The Present, Alfred Carney
An Evaluation Of The Place Occupied By The Greek Pastoral Elegy From Its Earliest Appearance To The Present, Alfred Carney
Master's Theses
To the student versed in the classics the influence of Greek and Latin pastoral poetry on English Literature is well known. Starting at the time of the Italian Renaissance and encouraged by the Greek Revival several centuries later, the classical influence has permeated our literature more than any other factor. During the time of the Renaissance pastoral poetry had a place of importance equal to that of the equip and the drama. The sweet melodies of Greek rural life reechoed in the eclogues of Vergil had such a charm for later poets that they could not be resisted. Pastoral poetry …
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.