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Author | : John Powell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2000-10-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313096678 |
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Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.
Author | : John William Cousin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Download A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Powell |
Publisher | : Greenwood Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780313304224 |
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Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.
Author | : John W. Cousin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Bruccoli |
Publisher | : Gale |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography covers only the American authors most frequently studied in high school and college literature courses. It extracts and fully updates essays in their entirety from the much larger Dictionary of Literary Biography series.The 6-vol. set begins each entry with a helpful chart that instantly shows the important places, influences and relationships; literary movements; major themes; cultural and artistic influences; and social and economic influences that most affected the featured author's work. The set is organized chronologically.Each volume is devoted to a single historical period, covering 30-40 representative writers from all genres. They include:Colonization to the American Renaissance, 1640-1865Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color, 1865-1917The Twenties, 1917-1929The Age of Maturity, 1929-1941The New Consciousness, 1941-1968Broadening Views, 1968-1988The Supplement to the 6-vol. set, Modern American Writers, provides additional information on 20th-century authors featured in the original volumes.
Author | : John Powell |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313317844 |
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Treating the cultural giants of the 20th century, this volume traces their reading habits and intellectual development, as well as their contributions to Western culture. Suggesting the literary influences on these figures, the book includes 355 entries on people from a broad range of fields, including scientists, politicians, business figures, writers, religious leaders, and figures from the performing arts and popular culture. The volume is a handy companion to Powell's earlier volume, Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914. Reflecting non-Western influences on Western culture, the volume includes such Asian and African figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Wole Soyinka, while also covering the significant Western figures. As the volume recognizes, forms of cultural influence evolved in the 20th century to include more aural and visual influences. Yet the volume still reveals fascinating literary influences throughout the century.
Author | : C. D. Rose |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-11-04 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 161219379X |
Download The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A darkly comic, satirical reference book about writers who never made it into the literary canon A signal event of literary scholarship, The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure compiles the biographies of history’s most notable cases of a complete lack of literary success. As such, it is the world’s leading authority on the subject. Compiled in one volume by C. D. Rose, a well-educated person universally acknowledged in parts of England as the world’s pre-eminent expert on inexpert writers, the book culls its information from lost or otherwise ignored archives scattered around the globe, as well as the occasional dustbin. The dictionary amounts to a monumental accomplishment: the definitive appreciation of history’s least accomplished writers. Thus immortalized beyond deserving and rescued from hard-earned obscurity, the authors presented in this historic volume comprise a who’s who of the talentless and deluded, their stories timeless litanies of abject psychosis, misapplication, and delinquency. It is, in short, a treasure.
Author | : Charles Dudley Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1898 |
Genre | : Anthologies |
ISBN | : |
Download Library of the World's Best Literature: Biographical dictionary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eric v.d. Luft |
Publisher | : Gegensatz Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2022-12-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1621307417 |
Download Ruminations, Volume 4: Gloria! Selected Philosophical, Historical, and Ideological Papers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Essays and other short works on Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Burke, Stepelevich, Schopenhauer, Plotinus, Mary Walker, Edgar Bauer, mental imagery, the principle of sufficient reason, special collections librarianship, psychiatry, time, contract bridge, etc.