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A Survey Of Junior High School Literature Texts Based Upon An Evaluation Of Literary Characteristics, William R. Moore

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Part Of Tossed By Fortune Historical Novel, Rene J. Rousseve

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, submitted to Xavier University in partial fulfillment of requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932, presents a portion of an original historical novel titled "Tossed by Fortune," set in colonial New Orleans and Louisiana during the 1760s. The narrative follows Louis de Montaigne, a young French Creole nobleman, and his family as they experience the political upheaval surrounding the transfer of Louisiana from French to Spanish rule under the Treaty of Paris.

The excerpt traces events from the arrival of news of Louisiana's brief reannexation to France, through the formal cession of the colony to Spain, …

Is Sex Necessary? Or Why You Feel The Way You Do, James Thurber, E. B. White

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Contents: The Nature of the American Male : A Study of Pedestalism • How to Tell Love From Passion • A Discussion of Feminine Types • The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene • The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion • What Should Children Tell Parents? • Claustrophobia, or What Every Young Wife Should Know • Frigidity in Men • Answers to Hard Questions • Glossary

Two paragons of twentieth-century letters launched their publishing careers in 1929 with this wry and delightful book about sex and sexuality.

James Thurber (1894–1961) was a journalist, writer, cartoonist, and longtime …

Social Bias Of American Literature, Dorothy A. Gannon

Bachelors’ Theses

Literature is said to embody the best thoughts of the world, a knowledge and appreciation of which is the essential element of culture. It is influenced by whatever effects the thought and feelings of the people, the race, epoch, and surroundings.

The Negro In Literature, A. W. Arnaud

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis traces the development of the Negro in American literature from its origins in the spirituals through the flowering of the "New Negro" Renaissance of the early twentieth century. Arnaud opens by defining literature as the artistic record of a people's inner life and argues that Negro literary expression developed first through song, tracing the movement from oral spirituals through the early poetry of the enslaved and freed population toward increasingly sophisticated literary forms.

The thesis presents Paul Laurence Dunbar as the foremost early exponent of Negro poetry, examining his biography and his work in both classic English verse …

November 6, 1927: To Merriss Cornell, Archives, L. E. Smith

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Photographs sent to Merriss Cornell from L. E. Smith; features the Grand Canyon and a group of men.

Some Aspects Of The Intellectual Poise Of George Robert Gissing, Glenn Orville Kelley

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Thls study, Some Aspects of the Intellectual Poise of George Robert Gising, had its inception in a course in The Novel, an Intepretation of Life, offered by Doctor Frederick A. Stuff in the summer session of the University of Nebraska in 1926. More narrowly, it began with that part of the course treating of the mode in literature known as realism. In one reference, Wilson Follett's The Modern Novel, was found the following statement relative to the novels of George Gissing, an author of whom the writer of this thesis had not previously heard.

"Hardly any parallel could show …

Beauty (Summer Rain), James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A poem published in the February 26, 1927 issue of The Independent, with edits by the author changing the title from Beauty to Summer rain.

Article On The October Midland

James Hearst Documents

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Caroling Dusk: An Anthology Of Verse By Negro Poets, Countee Cullen , Editor

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Poets: Paul Laurence Dunbar • Joseph S. Cotter, Sr • James Weldon Johnson • William Edward Burghardt Du Bois • William Stanley Braithwaite • James Edward Mccall • Angelina Weld Grimke • Anne Spencer • Mary Effie Lee Newsome • John Frederick Matheus • Fenton Johnson • Jessie Fauset • Alice Dunbar Nelson • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Claude McKay • Jean Toomer • Joseph S. Cotter, Jr • Blanche Taylor Dickinson • Frank Horne • Lewis Alexander • Sterling A. Brown • Clarissa Scott Delany • Langston Hughes • Gwendolyn B. Bennett • Anna Bontemps • Albert Rice • …

Around The Bend, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A poem about fishing, published in the September 1926 issue of Outdoor America.

In April, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A poem about the month of April in Iowa published in the August 1926 issue of The Midland, one of six poems written by James Hearst in this issue.

Pageant Program, The Spirit Of 50 Years, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

The program of a pageant written by James Hearst to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. The pageant was performed on May 29, 1926.

Color, Countee Cullen

Electronic Texts in American Studies

Poet, playwright, novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903–1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Color (1925), his first published book of poetry, confronts head-on what W.E.B. DuBois called “the problem of the 20th century—the problem of the color line.” The work includes 72 poems, such as the following:

Incident (For Eric Walrond)

Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, …

Increase Mather: The Foremost American Puritan, Kenneth B. Murdock

Zea E-Books in American Studies

The classic biography of preeminent colonial Massachusetts minister and President of Harvard College, Increase Mather (1639-1723). This is the work that re-started Puritan studies in America.

“A book which will be indispensable to students of early American history.” —Times Literary Supplement

“It is a book to welcome and appreciate.” —American Historical Review

“The available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill.” —The Sewanee Review

“[Murdock’s book] opened the sluice gates to powerful streams of scholarship that in the next two decades revised our understanding of American Puritanism.” —Philip F. Gura, in A Concise …

The Isle Of The Setting Sun, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

Typescript of the poem The Isle of the setting sun, published in the November 1924 issue of Heacock's.

Voices, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

A illustrated poem about an inland person longing to go to sea published in the September 1924 issue of Good Housekeeping.

America For Americans, James Hearst

James Hearst Documents

The typescript of the short story America for Americans, published in the American Legion Weekly September 26, 1924.

Green Box No. 02; Printing Plates/Cuts Used In E. Haldeman-Julius Materials; Plate 1, Emanual Haldeman- Julius

Little Blue Books Printing Plates

Green Storage Box of Printing Plates/Cuts used in E. Haldeman-Julius written material production. This includes, Little Blue Books, Big Blue Books, Appeal to reason, Haldeman-Julius Weekly to name a few. This is printing cut/plate 1 from Green Storage box #2

James Hearst Honorable Discharge

James Hearst Documents

The honorable discharge papers of James Hearst at the end of his military service in 1918, filed in Black hawk County in 1919

September 27, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, John Cornell Bradrick

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; discussing John's time in the trenches and the conditions of the overseas camp in France.

June 6, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, John Cornell Bradrick, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Envelope and photo for Geneva Cornell from John Cornell Bradrick; giving instruction to call someone up.

March 14, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, John Cornell Bradrick, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; asking her to send him tobacco and detailing how broke John is.

Alan Seeger Letter From Paris, 1913, Alan Seeger

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Alan Seeger, 1888–1916, American poet, b. New York City, grad. Harvard, 1910. During World War I he served in the French Foreign Legion and was killed in battle in 1916. He is famous for his war poem, “I Have a Rendezvous with Death.” Classmate of T.S. Eliot. In this letter, Seeger talks about his arrival (in September, 1912) and accommodations in Paris, and comments upon the current political and spiritual culture of France.

June 21, 1912: Political Cartoon, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

A political cartoon for The Post of William Howard Taft dressed up as Hamlet and holding the skull of Teddy Roosevelt.

April 9, 1912: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, John Cornell Bradrick

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

A water damaged letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; detailing his plan to get and share a bike with Tom.

May 20, 1910: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, Jacob Burgner

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

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Joggin' Erlong, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

Joggin’ Erlong was the final collection of Dunbar’s poetry published during his lifetime. His health continued to decline after his diagnosis with tuberculosis. Separated from his wife in 1902, Dunbar eventually returned home to Dayton to live with his mother, Matilda. Much of his later work between 1902-1906 reflects his increasingly ill health.

Lyrics Of Sunshine And Shadow, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

This book is a collection of previously published poems by Dunbar, containing works both in dialect and in standard English.

Howdy Honey Howdy, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

Illustrated with photographs by Leigh Richmond Miner, Howdy Honey Howdy contains many previously published poems by Dunbar. One difference from previous covers is the photograph of a woman in a doorway, hand extended, as if welcoming the reader and inviting one to enter.